Mary Wollstonecraft

27 April 1759 - 10 September 1797

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	Elizabeth Hervey	The Critical Reviewread this pleasing and interesting story as an imitation of Burney 's Cecilia.If there is a fault, it suggested, it was the structural fault of raising and solving one difficulty...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger	The notice in the Analytical Review, which may have been written by Wollstonecraft , is curiously unenthusiastic. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols. 7: 416-17 At the time of EOB 's death, Lucy Aikin called The Female Geniada poem...
Literary responses	Sarah Harriet Burney	Clarentine was a successful debut. The Critical Review (which opened its brief review on the author's relationship to her elder sister ) said it was greatly superior to novels of the ordinary stamp; and it...
Literary responses	Regina Maria Roche	This novel was written at such an early age, said RMR , that some people thought it was really the work of her father . Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. A review, perhaps by Wollstonecraft , in the Analytical Review...
Literary responses	Anna Maria Bennett	The Critical Review thought this the first of AMB 's novels to achieve excellence. This time, it said, the intricate story was well woven (at least in the first two volumes) and the plot and...
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, 1997. 81 The review in the Analytical, probably Wollstonecraft 's, offered strong endorsement. AR 's uncommon talent for gothic, it said, had...
Literary responses	Anna Maria Mackenzie	The Critical Review gave high praise to this novel's characters, and said not many works of fiction excelled it, although it found the plot weak and in parts derivative: the wandering of Calista is perhaps...
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, 1989, 7 vols. 7: 331
Literary responses	Jane West	When the fourth volume appeared in 1789, the Critical found it heavy, languid and uninteresting, and judged the serial publication to have been a mistake. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 68 (1789): 495 Andrew Becket in the Monthly and Mary Wollstonecraft
Literary responses	Hester Lynch Piozzi	The long-continued media harassment of HLP was of course a response to the events of her life; yet her public presence as an author probably exacerbated it. Typical was Ridgway 's publication of The Sentimental...
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, 1989, 7 vols. 81-2
Literary responses	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Literary admirers of the hymns included Hannah More , Anna Seward , and Elizabeth Carter , who found some passages amazingly sublime. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 193 The innumerable children who loved and later remembered them included Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
Literary responses	Anne Francis	This book was reviewed in the Analytical (probably by Wollstonecraft ), which found it pretty but not above mediocrity, and wished that Charlotte had not had to apologise for the indelicacy of surviving Werther. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols. 7: 264-5
Literary responses	Jane West	This work had the unusual distinction of earning approving comments from both Austen and Wollstonecraft . The contrasted sisters are generally seen as an important source for Austen 's Sense and Sensibility, and the...
Literary responses	Sarah Pearson	The Sheffield Register carried two poems (a sonnet and an ode) in September which welcome and praise this volume. Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Sarah/Susanna Pearson, Harriet Downing. 16 May 2016. The Critical Review, too, welcomed it warmly. It quoted in full the introductory sonnet addressed...

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