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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Literary responses Hannah Cowley
Wollstonecraft 's very short review in the January 1792 Analytical ignored anything controversial, but noted the play's lively sallies . . . evanescent graces.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering.
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Some reviewers objected to its mixture of genres (tragic...
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.
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The story opens shortly before the French Revolution...
Reception Helen Craik
Apparently the only journal to notice Adelaide de Narbonne was the Anti-Jacobin in January 1800: it wished that Craik had not left her own political stance inexplicit.
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.
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Critic Shareen Robinson describes this novel as...
Friends, Associates Ann Batten Cristall
ABC and her brother Joshua met Wollstonecraft in about 1788, and Joshua coresponded with her. A few years later Wollstonecraft told Joshua she wished that Ann could obtain a little more strength of mind instead...
Publishing Ann Batten Cristall
Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld and her brother , Ann Jebb , the future Amelia Opie , Anna Maria Porter , Mary Wollstonecraft and her sister, Mary Hays and her sister, a Mrs Spence who...
Family and Intimate relationships Ann Batten Cristall
His father was very much against Joshua becoming an artist, so his mother sent him money and clothes on the sly to keep him financially afloat.
Roget, John Lewis. A History of the Old Water-Colour Society. Longmans, Green.
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At first he was very poor. Mary Wollstonecraft
Reception Ella D'Arcy
EDA 's slim output has made it easier for posterity to ignore her. But both Arnold Bennett and Ford Madox Ford thought highly of her.
Fisher, Benjamin Franklin. “Ella D’Arcy: A Commentary with a Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography”. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 179-11.
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Mix, Katherine Lyon. A Study in Yellow: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="j">The Yellow Book</span> and Its Contributors. Greenwood Press.
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Katherine Mix discussed her work in A Study...
politics Charlotte Dacre
It appears from some of her poems (praise of Pitt , dispraise of Fox ), as well as from her eldest son's name, that CD was a Tory like her husband, or at least a...
Literary responses Maria De Fleury
The later edition was noticed in the Analytical Review, probably by Wollstonecraft , as using tame and prosaic language, a faint imitation of Elizabeth Singer Rowe .
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering.
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Violence Dorothea Du Bois
In DDB 's fictionalised account of her father, he is irrationally and childishly jealous, given to uttering threats of serious violence. Like Mary Wollstonecraft , Dorothea knew what it was as a child to try...
Literary responses Maria Edgeworth
The Analytical review (perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft ) welcomed the book (referring to the author as male), deplored the hostility to new ideas in education even among those who should know better, and expressed the...
Publishing George Eliot
The Leader carried GE 's important short article Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft, another trenchant examination of women's position in society.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
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Textual Features George Eliot
Miss Arrowpoint saves herself, while Mirah, the young Jewish woman whom Daniel eventually marries, needs him to save her from a suicide attempt reminiscent of that of Mary Wollstonecraft . Gwendolen, at the climactic moment...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Katharine Elwood
Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Griselda Murray , Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , Hester Lynch Piozzi
Literary responses Olaudah Equiano
This book was an immediate success in Britain, and in the USA it significantly influenced the emancipation movement.
Equiano, Olaudah. “Introduction, etc”. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, edited by Angelo Costanzo, Peterborough, ON, pp. 7-37.
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An early reviewer, Mary Wollstonecraft in the Analytical Review, noted some inconsistency between the...

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