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 | Helen Maria Williams | The book had a good review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, in the Analytical for December 1790. The interesting, unaffected letters which this pleasing writer has now presented to the public Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Todd, Janet and Marilyn ButlerEditors , Pickering, 1989. 7: 322 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | The Critical Review, reviewing this book, called CS
a sister-queen Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998. 141 Garside, Peter, James Raven, and Rainer Schöwerling, editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000. 1: 548 |
Literary responses | Frances Burney | Burney's family were delighted. Her young half-sister Sarah Harriet
(who was about to publish her own first novel) sent her a perfect rhapsody of praise. Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Clark, Lorna J.Editor , University of Georgia Press, 1997. 17-18 |
Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
'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... |
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. Todd, Janet and Marilyn ButlerEditors , Pickering, 1989. 7: 331 |
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. Todd, Janet and Marilyn ButlerEditors , Pickering, 1989. 81-2 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Again the Analytical reviewer may have been Wollstonecraft
, and if so she was better pleased than before: another novel, written with her usual flow of language and happy discrimination of manners. . .... |
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. Todd, Janet and Marilyn ButlerEditors , Pickering, 1989. 7: 264-5 |
Literary responses | 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 |
Literary responses | 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. Todd, Janet and Marilyn ButlerEditors , Pickering, 1989. 7: 203 |
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. |
Literary responses | 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... |
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 | 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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