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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politics Lady Caroline Lamb
Like her birth family, LCL strongly supported a Whig and reformist political agenda.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
85
She told her cousin Lord Hartington , I have read Mary WollstonecraftRights of Woman, am become a convert.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
86
She also...
Occupation William Godwin
The imprint M. J. Godwin and Company was launched the following year. The business flourished, becoming almost a literary salon like that of Joseph Johnson : visitors included Germaine de Staël . It remained, however...
Occupation Fanny Holcroft
Lady Mountcashel as a girl had had Mary Wollstonecraft as her governess; Wollstonecraft too had been dismissed from this post, though she had preserved her friendship with her pupil Margaret, later Lady Mountcashel. FH 's...
Occupation John Milton
As to poetry, Paradise Lost was quickly recognised as a classic. In 1674, while it was still a very recent text, Dryden praised it as undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime...
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 Cassandra, Lady Hawke
Some reviews were highly respectful. The Critical, while it just touched on too great a profusion of ornamental description, concentrated on good points. The story is conducted with great skill; intricately entangled, without too...
Literary responses Elizabeth Inchbald
The novel was greeted in the Analytical Review, probably by Wollstonecraft , as also in the Critical and the Monthly, with carefully discriminated and detailed praise.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering.
7: 369-70
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 535-6
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 Mariana Starke
A good review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft , in the Analytical, says: This interesting tale is told in easy flowing measures, and many sentiments occur that do honour to the writer's heart.. It...
Literary responses Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
The review in the Critical reflected annoyance that the author had (oddly, since she had on balance been favourably treated by this journal) called it ill-natured.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
67 (1789): 397
In Argus, it claimed,...
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
The review in the Analytical, probably Wollstonecraft 's, offered strong endorsement. AR 's uncommon talent for gothic, it said, had...
Literary responses Susanna Haswell Rowson
The volume received a damning telegraphic review in the Analytical (perhaps by Wollstonecraft ), which reads, in its entirety, Weak prosaic attempts, without the images or harmony of poetry.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering.
7: 88
The Critical agreed that...
Literary responses Elizabeth Inchbald
Nature and Art was praised in the Monthly and Critical Review, with polite endorsement of EI 's reputation.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 16 (1796): 325
The Analytical reviewer, probably Wollstonecraft , showed herself harder to please...
Literary responses Maria Edgeworth
The Analytical review (perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft ) welcomed the book (referring to the author as male), deplored the hostility to new ideas in education even among those who should know better, and expressed the...
Literary responses Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
Mary Wollstonecraft , though she saw many virtues in this book, was not happy that Adelaide was educated to be obedient, not independent-minded: that with all her accomplishments she was ready to marry any body...

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