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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Burney | Wollstonecraft
's tacit presence here extends beyond the portrait of Elinor. Juliet, it turns out, is fleeing from an intolerable marriage, like the heroine of The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria. English law condemns... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Harriet Burney | Clarentine was a successful debut. The Critical Review (which opened its brief review on the author's relationship to her elder sister
) said it was greatly superior to novels of the ordinary stamp; and it... |
| Literary responses | Frances Burney | Burney's family were delighted. Her young half-sister Sarah Harriet
(who was about to publish her own first novel) sent her a perfect rhapsody of praise. Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press. 17-18 |
| Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | They both took to wearing their hair cropped in the 1790s when this was fashionable, and persisted when the fashion was over. Since they also wore beaver hats (which was more acceptable for women in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | One of the many novels which RNC
chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)... |
| Education | Dora Carrington | Carrington began to alter herself in other ways also. During her first term at the Slade she began to go by her surname only. Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press. 13 |
| Literary responses | Cassandra, Lady Hawke | Some reviews were highly respectful. The Critical, while it just touched on too great a profusion of ornamental description, concentrated on good points. The story is conducted with great skill; intricately entangled, without too... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Hester Mulso Chapone | Her brother John
wrote of the Praises that resound on all Sides following the publication of this book, though he regretted that reviewers, in praising the moral content, had ignored the literary style. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 231 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Hume Clapperton | In her youth she had been part of a circle that included Charles Bray
and George Eliot
. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 166 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Cowden Clarke | Both Novellos were close friends of Mary Shelley
during the 1820s. Mary gave Vincent a lock of the hair of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft
. Crook, Nora. “Fourteen New Letters by Mary Shelley”. Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 62 , pp. 37-61. 43 |
| Reception | Anne Conway | Two of AC
's most recent editors, Coudert
and Corse
, more forcefully assert that hers is the most interesting and original philosophical treatise written by a woman in the seventeenth century Conway, Anne. “Introduction”. The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, edited by Allison P. Coudert and Taylor Corse, Cambridge University Press, p. vii - xxxiii. xxix |
| Textual Features | Hannah Cowley | For her preface HC
clearly felt the need to back-pedal. I protest I know nothing about politics; will Miss Wolstonecraft
forgive me—whose book contains such a body of mind as I hardly ever met with—if... |
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