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.
Stipple engraving of Mary Wollstonecraft by James Heath after the painting by John Opie. She is wearing a light, loosely-fitting gown with high waist and a folded cap like a turban.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ took occasion, in a review of Joanna Baillie for the Athenæum, to praise not only Baillie but also Ann Radcliffe , Elizabeth Inchbald , and Mary Wollstonecraft .
Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, pp. 105-18.
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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 Ann Bridge
Though the authors declare on their opening page that the modern need is to supplement the exhaustive Baedeker with a selective guidebook (something designed to tell travellers what they cannot afford to miss), they actually...
Textual Features Mary Hays
She signals her intellectual seriousness by admiring accounts of Catharine Cockburn (formerly Trotter)
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press.
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and of Catharine Macaulay ; she emphasises Macaulay's concern with the moral problem of oppression and inequity, and her desire that...
Textual Features Eliza Fenwick
This epistolary novel, set mainly in a castle with secret passages connecting to a monastic ruin , deals with strictly contemporary issues of power and independence. It reflects the influence of EF 's friend Wollstonecraft
Textual Features Samuel Johnson
Misella (one of many women whose struggles are foregrounded in the Rambler though the medium of fictitious female correspondents) was first seduced by a man she trusted, and has since known the depths of poverty...
Textual Features Eliza Fenwick
EF 's letters, vividly written, full of ironic self-awareness, make an excellent source for her life. They reflect her powerful feelings for her children, ambivalent feelings about her experience of authorship, her continuing interest in...
Textual Features Sarah Green
The novel itself has elements of a spoof on the gothic, a didactic courtship plot, a social satire of the dialogue kind associated with Elizabeth Hamilton and Thomas Love Peacock , a sentimental melodrama, a...
Textual Features Eva Figes
A wide spread of social institutions and systems of knowledge interests EF : she looks at the force of gendered attitudes in theology, commerce, education, psychology and philosophy.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Though she intended to write of women...
Textual Features Mary Robinson
MR opens her feminist volume on the way women have been valued for being decorative but despised as regards mind, and pays tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft . As examples of modern abuses she cites unequal...
Textual Features Sophia King
This novel about the genesis of evil is told in the first person by its wicked yet pitiable male narrator, presented as a man of strong intellect and strong feeling, whose first words are What...
Textual Features Eliza Fletcher
EF 's arrangement is chronological, with original documents printed as they occur or are relevant. Her recall is excellent, her observations and analysis acute, her character-drawing perceptive, and her style pithy. She freely and candidly...
Textual Features Priscilla Wakefield
PW welcomes the way that Adam Smith and other Scottish Enlightenment writers have made womanhood a branch of philosophy, not a little interesting.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press.
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Unlike Wollstonecraft , she sees women's sphere as naturally limited and...
Textual Features Dorothy Wordsworth
What she does not write may sometimes be regretted. She recorded the arrival of Mary Wollstonecraft 's life, etc. (her Posthumous Works, including The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria) on 14 April 1798...
Textual Features Julia Kristeva
JK 's essay distinguishes three phases or generations in feminism. The first phase (whose opening can be dated from Wollstonecraft or from another pioneering feminist text) is associated with linear time and with agitation for...

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