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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Hester Mulso Chapone	HMC was still reading and commenting on others' works into her old age. She read and remarked on Hester Piozzi , Charlotte Smith , Edward Gibbon , Erasmus Darwin 's The Loves of the Plants...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Catherine Hutton	Jane Oakwood's brother has only one woman author (Elizabeth Inchbald ) in his library; Jane on the other hand is a mine of information and opinion about several generations of a female literary tradition...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Helena Wells	HW 's narrator represents a youthful reader exclaiming in disgust, And this is called a novel? . . . Why there is not an old castle to be pried into, nor a rusty key found...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Amelia Opie	Aiming at a reasoned critique, through Adeline and Glenmurray, of Wollstonecraft 's principles, and specifically her relationship with Godwin , AO seems to give higher priority to the intensification of her heroine's virtue, self-sacrifice, and...
Violence	Dorothea Du Bois	In DDB 's fictionalised account of her father, he is irrationally and childishly jealous, given to uttering threats of serious violence. Like Mary Wollstonecraft , Dorothea knew what it was as a child to try...

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