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 Charlotte Smith
The Critical Review, reviewing this book, called CS a sister-queen
qtd. in
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
141
of the novel with Frances Burney . William Enfield in the Monthly praised it warmly.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 548
Wollstonecraft , probable author of the...
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, 1989, 7 vols.
7: 88
The Critical agreed that...
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 Helen Maria Williams
A respectful review by Mary Wollstonecraft in the Analytical praised Williams's calm domestic scenes,
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols.
7: 251
her landscapes, and her convincing characters from nature, as well as the feminine sweetness in her style and...
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...
Literary responses Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Critic Kay Moser finds in the poem distinct echoes of Mary Wollstonecraft , whose ideas EBB embraced with enthusiasm in her youth.
Moser, Kay. “Elizabeth Barrett’s Youthful Feminism: ’Fragment of an ‘Essay on Woman’’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol.
12
, 1 Mar.–30 Nov. 1984, pp. 13-26.
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Literary responses Sarah Trimmer
The Gentleman's Magazine gave the cards three lines of praise, as admirably well calculated
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
59 (1789): 445
for ST 's purpose. Wollstonecraft too, in the Analytical judged them useful and highly praiseworthy as well as...
Literary responses Mary Hays
William Frend had read the work in manuscript and been much pleased, though he took the liberty of suggesting a few revisions.
qtd. in
Hays, Mary. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist. Editor Brooks, Marilyn, Edwin Mellen, 2004.
244
Reviewers linked MH with Wollstonecraft, with results more often hostile than...
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. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols.
7: 322
reminded the...
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. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
17-18
A long review in the Analytical Review, probably...
Literary responses Sarah Trimmer
A single-paragraph review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft , observes that by now ST must be an expert in her benevolent attempt to improve the poor,
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols.
7: 123
and that asking questions is a good idea...
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 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 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 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...

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