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.
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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 | 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 | 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 | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
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 | Mary Shelley | |
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, p. xxix - xxxvii. xxxvi |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Macaulay | This reflective, original work had an important influence on Mary Wollstonecraft
. Wollstonecraft
wrote the notice of it in the Analytical Review, calling the author the woman of the greatest abilities . .... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Oakley | Its chapter on education has an epigraph from Mary Wollstonecraft
. Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell. 202 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Oakley | AO
's epigraph is from Mary Wollstonecraft
's travel letters. Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo. prelims |
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. O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, pp. Review 20 - 3. 22 |
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, pp. 193-32. 228n47 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | AG
responded to what she acknowledged as Mary Wollstonecraft
's considerable powers, feeling and rectitude of intention 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. Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 268 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. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Julia O'Faolain | The topics covered in richly informative detail, far too many to enumerate, include a father's life-or-death rights over his offspring in ancient Greece, while such topics as buying and selling sex, or the relation... |
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