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
Intertextuality and Influence Bessie Rayner Parkes
In a section devoted to the physical development of women, BRP criticizes the unrealistic, senseless, and erroneous
Parkes, Bessie Rayner. Remarks on the Education of Girls. J. Chapman, 1854.
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standards applied to women's beauty in a manner that strikes a modern reader as far ahead of...
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, 2008.
162-3
Mary Wollstonecraft quoted from Barbauld's Thoughts on the Devotional Taste in her own preface to The Female Reader...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Robins
As preface it reprints Woman's Secret (first published in 1900 for the WSPU by the Garden City Press of Letchworth), which argues that women's disadvantaged position is not the result of a conspiracy by...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Hatton
The work is headed with a motto: Feeling, not genius, prompts the lay,
Feminist Companion Archive.
and a stanza from James Beattie 's The Minstrel. Contents include both Nova Scotia and Inscription for a temple, in a...
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, 2001.
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Though she never met the latter, she credited Eliot (along with Mary Wollstonecraft and Harriet Martineau
Intertextuality and Influence Adrienne Rich
The title poem had been jotted in fragments during children's naps, brief hours in a library or at three am after rising with a wakeful child.
qtd. in
O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, 15 June 2002, pp. Review 20 - 3.
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The collection followed on intensive reading of such...
Intertextuality and Influence Hannah More
More lays her heaviest emphasis on the need for observing propriety.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
195
She expresses her belief in original sin, and devotes a chapter to human corruption; but this deals also with salvation.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
117
While she...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Smith
Sales were unexpectedly brisk. Reviews were positive and most emphasised that the stories here were true.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Smith, edited by Michael Garner et al., Pickering and Chatto, 2005, p. xxix - xxxvii.
xxxvi
The Critical Review, however, thought they would be equally interesting whether they should turn out to be...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
A few statements are footnoted to their originators, whom EPW has either paraphrased or versified: Sherlock and Lavater are her favourites, but she also draws on lighter writers like Horace , Swift , and Coleridge
Intertextuality and Influence Adrienne Rich
These poems abandon AR 's former regular metres for free verse, as they abandon decorum for outspoken personal expression about the struggle necessary to be a thinking woman rather than a good girl.
qtd. in
O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, 15 June 2002, pp. Review 20 - 3.
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Intertextuality and Influence Anna Jane Vardill
AJV translates from Sappho , Anacreon , Alcæus , Theocritus , Horace , and more recent poets: Petrarch and Camoens . She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute
Intertextuality and Influence Ruth Rendell
Babes in the Wood features a hunt for two missing children or young teenagers. Its rather sketchy characterisation and hurried, improbable ending are redeemed by close attention to atmosphere: the weather (relentless rain, floods), slight...
Intertextuality and Influence Flora Tristan
One chapter, entitled English Women, criticizes British social systems, and details the consequences women suffer because of the indissolubility of marriage.
Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books, 1980.
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FT shows particular sympathy for Rosina Bulwer Lytton , whom she depicts...
Intertextuality and Influence Hannah More
HM 's wife-seeking Coelebs is said to be modelled on John Scandrett Harford , and her ideal heroine, Lucilla Stanley, on Louisa Davis, whom Harford eventually married.
Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
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In some sense the work is feminist...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Hays
The publisher was Knott . The title-page quotes Socrates and Burns . The work is dedicated to the Rev. John Disney . MH 's sister, Eliza or Elizabeth, contributed two Moral Essays.
Hays, Mary. Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous. T. Knott, 1793.
prelims
qtd. in
Feminist Companion Archive.
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