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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | AG
responded to what she acknowledged as Mary Wollstonecraft
's considerable powers, feeling and rectitude of intention qtd. in 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, 1990. Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, 3 vols. 2: 268 qtd. in 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, 1990. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Oakley | Its chapter on education has an epigraph from Mary Wollstonecraft
. Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell, 1986. 202 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, 3 vols. 2: 45-8 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Oakley | AO
's epigraph is from Mary Wollstonecraft
's travel letters. Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo, 1992. prelims |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | |
| 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)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | The book had coloured illustrations. ES
adopts here a relaxed, informal tone. She pays more attention than formerly to scenery (though she insists that only truly personal responses are interesting), but also to the humdrum... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Some of Barbauld's acutest social comment was linked with her pedagogy. Fashion, a Vision, probably written about 1792 for her first private paying pupil, and picking up some ideas from Wollstonecraft
's Vindication,... |
| 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. 9 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. 166 |
| 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... |
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