Mary Wollstonecraft

27 April 1759 - 10 September 1797

Standard Name: Wollstonecraft, Mary

Birth Name: Mary Wollstonecraft

Married Name: Mary Godwin

Pseudonym: Mr Cresswick, Teacher of Elocution

Pseudonym: M.

Pseudonym: W.

MW has a distinguished historical place as a feminist: as theorist, critic and reviewer, novelist, and especially as an activist for improving women's place in society. She also produced pedagogy or conduct writing, an anthology, translation, history, analysis of politics as well as gender politics, and a Romantic account of her travels in Scandinavia.

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Connections	Author name Sort ascending	Excerpt
Literary responses	Anna Letitia Barbauld	J. W. Croker 's notice in the Quarterly Review (in June 1812, wrongly attributed by some to Southey ) was most offensive of all. He reached for the gendered weapons so often drawn against Mary Wollstonecraft
Textual Production	Anna Letitia Barbauld	An unacknowledged example was Wollstonecraft 's The Female Reader. The project of rivalling Enfield was ambitious; furthermore, the association of women with public speaking was subversive. He had included only one woman (herself) among...
Literary responses	Anna Letitia Barbauld	ALB 's early fame is exemplified in the project of a well-known London printer (reported in January 1787) for a series of plates illustrating works by the most celebrated British Poets. His list began with...
Friends, Associates	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Her close friends at this period included Mary and Joseph Priestley and a number of young women of her own age. She was particularly attracted by a pair of sisters who got themselves barred from...
Literary responses	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Literary admirers of the hymns included Hannah More , Anna Seward , and Elizabeth Carter , who found some passages amazingly sublime. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 193 The innumerable children who loved and later remembered them included Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
Intertextuality and Influence	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Some of Barbauld's acutest social comment was linked with her pedagogy. Fashion, a Vision, probably written about 1792 for her first private paying pupil, and picking up some ideas from Wollstonecraft 's Vindication,...
Intertextuality and Influence	Anna Letitia Barbauld	This work was controversial. William Enfield in the Monthly Review praised it and endorsed its opinions. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 162-3 Mary Wollstonecraft quoted from Barbauld's Thoughts on the Devotional Taste in her own preface to The Female Reader...
Textual Features	Anna Letitia Barbauld	She strikes a newly bold, almost an insurrectionary note here, calling upon revolutionary France, indeed, to provide a model. [W]hatever is corrupted must be lopt away, she writes, as people assert their long forgotten...
Textual Production	Anna Letitia Barbauld	She said she had made notes towards this project, but thought the task too big for her (and that it would have had to be begun sooner). Burke had already attracted two indignant answers: Wollstonecraft
Textual Production	Anna Letitia Barbauld	By later 1792 ALB had composed what might have been her principal feminist text, an ingenious forecast of what women might be to like a century into the future—presumably women emancipated by a Wollstonecraftian
Textual Features	Isabella Banks	The Neglected Wife describes a husband neglectful of his promise to cherish his wife and guard her from blighting care, or undermining grief, Banks, Isabella, and George Linnaeus Banks. Daisies in the Grass. R. Hardwicke. 118 but who, on the contrary, has many extramarital affairs. Like Mary Wollstonecraft
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Clara Balfour	In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's...
Characters	Joanna Baillie	Countess Albini in Count Basil is a heroine in the same mould as Jane De Monfort: critic Anne Mellor calls her not only the embodiment of rational judgement but also Baillie's homage to Mary Wollstonecraft
Family and Intimate relationships	W. H. Auden	Nicholas Jenkins of Stanford University formerly maintained on his website at http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/ a section called W. H. Auden. Family Ghosts, designed to show how Auden's family, despite his claims to ordinariness, sprang from a...
Education	Louisa May Alcott	She was also a great self-educator and took to reading everything from Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress to Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter (he was a family friend). She particularly admired Mary Wollstonecraft and also warmed...

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