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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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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Hester Lynch Piozzi | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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. |
| names | Elizabeth Inchbald |
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| 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... |
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