Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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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's early fame is exemplified in the project of a well-known London printer (reported in January 1787) for a series of plates illustrating works by the most celebrated British Poets. His list began with...
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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
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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.
81-2
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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.
7: 264-5
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Susanna Watts
The Critical Review thought The Wonderful Travels of Prince Fan-Feredin offered its readers a pleasant and harmless laugh
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 11 (1794): 356
at pastoral swains. The Gentleman's Magazine was respectful, calling SW
an ornament...
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Elizabeth Hands
A brief notice in the Analytical Review written (probably) by Mary Wollstonecraft
early in the year after publication treated EH
fairly scathingly.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering.
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.
The Critical Review, too, welcomed it warmly. It quoted in full the introductory sonnet addressed...
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Ann Yearsley
The Critical Review, commenting on Poems, on Various Subjects together with the fourth edition of Yearsley's earlier collection, summarised her case against Hannah More and showed considerable sympathy with her: Surely a mother had...
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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...
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Catherine Hutton
Hutton transcribed onto the flyleaf of her own copy of Oakwood Hall (volume 3) an unattributed opinion, perhaps given before publication. This critic calls the book clever so far as it is a novel, and...
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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...
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Germaine de Staël
Mary Wollstonecraft
gave this work a poor review.
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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.
7: 416-17
At the time of EOB
's death, Lucy Aikin
called The Female Geniada poem...
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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...
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Ann Yearsley
A notice in the Analytical Review (perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
) complained that AY
did not deserve her current fame: she certainly has abilities, an independent mind and a feeling heart; but she was...
