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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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Regina Maria Roche | |
| Literary responses | Mary Robinson | A short notice in the Analytical Review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, singled out this passage for comment. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 331 |
| Textual Features | Mary Robinson | MR
opens her feminist volume on the way women have been valued for being decorative but despised as regards mind, and pays tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft
. As examples of modern abuses she cites unequal... |
| Literary responses | Mary Robinson | A somewhat wordy review in the Analytical, possibly by Mary Wollstonecraft
, says that at least this book will not diminish MR
's high reputation. The characterisation is good and the sentiments just, animated... |
| Literary responses | Mary Robinson | The Analytical's review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, takes MR
to task for over-reliance on her natural gifts. From carelessness, it says, her sentences are often confused, entangled with superfluous words, half-expressed sentiments, and... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | MR
's Fair Exchange, a historical novel, dealt with episodes in the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft
, William Wordsworth
, and Annette Vallon
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, pp. 119-34. 130 |
| 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 | 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. O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, pp. Review 20 - 3. 22 |
| Health | Adrienne Rich | After her third delivery she decided to be sterilised, though she met with social disapproval even from nurses caring for her in hospital: Had yourself spayed, did you? O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, pp. Review 20 - 3. 22 |
| 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... |
| politics | Clara Reeve | CR
said that her father was an old Whig, and it appears that her own politics were of the same stamp. She favoured social reforms like improved education for women, and welcomed the early... |
| Literary responses | Clara Reeve | It seems that CR
's outline of her abandoned plan for linked tales dealing with national character was an inspiration for Harriet Lee
's similar design in her Canterbury Tales. Apart from this, Reeve's... |
| Friends, Associates | Ann Radcliffe | While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR
) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks
, George Fordyce
, Ralph Griffiths
,... |
| Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Samuel Taylor Coleridge reviewed this novel somewhat belatedly for the Critical Review. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 81 |
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