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Mary Wollstonecraft
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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | EF
fully shared in her husband's friendship with William Godwin
. She exchanged visits with him, sometimes with one or other of her children, from the time she first entertained him in November 1788. He... |
| Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | That year HMW
was introduced by Dr John Moore
to Burns
, with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers
(in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi
, and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. The year... |
| Health | Adrienne Rich | After her third delivery she decided to be sterilised, though she met with social disapproval even from nurses caring for her in hospital: Had yourself spayed, did you? qtd. in O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, 15 June 2002, pp. Review 20 - 3. 22 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Wentworth Morton | The title-page quotes romantic, melancholy lines from Byron
's Childe Harold. Bottorff, William K., and Sarah Wentworth Morton. “Introduction”. My Mind and its Thoughts, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1975, pp. 5-16. 12 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Craik | Authors quoted on HC
's title-page include La Rochefoucauld
. Mary Robinson
's Walsingham is quoted in volume two and supplies the epigraph for volume three. Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 193-32. 228n47 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Hays | Among the book's contents are poems and fiction (including dream visions and an Oriental tale. Titles like Cleora, or the Misery Attending Unsuitable Connections and Josepha, or pernicious Effects of early Indulgence foreground Hays's didactic... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | This epistolary novel is highly political; its preface asserts a woman's right to interest in politics. The letters in it span the period from June 1790 to February 1792, tracking the events of the French... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson
asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Anne Barnard | Auld Robin Gray always enjoyed great popularity, and many hearers supposed LAB
's version to be traditional. One biographer writes, Antique ladies, with confident but erroneous memories, professed to have heard it often when they... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Radcliffe | The timing suggests influence from Wollstonecraft
's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | She followed this the next year with another furious sixteen-page pamphlet (of which OCLC lists only two extant copies). Its inordinately lengthy title sets the tone: Extraordinary Narrative of an Outrageous Violation of Liberty and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Sargent Murray | JSM
's Observations on Female Abilities (published in four parts late in The Gleaner) is a substantial scholarly piece. Writing now as a man, she adopts an almost uniformly upbeat tone. She early invokes... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Jellicoe | With this play, Jellicoe deliberately broke with her earlier work by writing a narrative drama based on a pre-existing story. She was attracted to the subject of Percy Shelley's life
because it gave her the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Radcliffe | MAR
focuses on the impossibility for middle-class women of earning an honest living, and the gradual male takeover of traditionally female jobs. She laments the fact that men no longer offer women adequate protection, and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Burney | FB
's dedication includes a discussion of the art of writing novels. Her final heroine, Juliet, faces even greater problems than her predecessors in negotiating the passage into the haven of marriage. At the outset... |
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