Mary Wollstonecraft

27 April 1759 - 10 September 1797

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	Hester Mulso Chapone	Her brother John wrote of the Praises that resound on all Sides following the publication of this book, though he regretted that reviewers, in praising the moral content, had ignored the literary style. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 231 Recently Sylvia Harcstark Myers
Literary responses	Charlotte Lennox	Euphemia was reviewed by Thomas Ogle in the Monthly Review, and in the Critical, the Analytical, and the European Magazine. Ogle was moderately laudatory, the Critical both laudatory and valedictory. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 511
Literary responses	Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis	SFG 's importance to the influential Mary Wollstonecraft can be gauged from the way that Wollstonecraft used and built on her writings, recommended them, measured others by their standard, and also did not hesitate to...
Literary responses	Jane West	This work had the unusual distinction of earning approving comments from both Austen and Wollstonecraft . The contrasted sisters are generally seen as an important source for Austen 's Sense and Sensibility, and the...
Literary responses	Phebe Gibbes	This novel aroused much interest. One letter was reprinted almost entire, without attribution, on 2 July 1789 in the Aberdeen Magazine as a Picture of the Mode of living at Calcutta. In a letter from...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Bonhote	This book was highly successful. But an Analytical reviewer in January 1792 (who may have been Wollstonecraft ) was not impressed, finding trite sentiments expressed in bald language Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 414 and noting that many better...
Literary responses	Evelyn Sharp	Beverly Lyon Clark , who wrote an introduction to this book and thought extremely highly of it, argued that the neglect of it stemmed from its belonging not just to one but to several under-appreciated...
Literary responses	Olaudah Equiano	This book was an immediate success in Britain, and in the USA it significantly influenced the emancipation movement. Equiano, Olaudah. “Introduction, etc”. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, edited by Angelo Costanzo, Peterborough, ON, pp. 7-37. 11, 7 An early reviewer, Mary Wollstonecraft in the Analytical Review, noted some inconsistency between the...
Literary responses	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	According to Patrica Spacks , CPG displays no real sense of personal identity in The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She denies the implicit egotism of autobiography by insisting that the self is less...
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	Mary Hays	William Frend had read the work in manuscript and been much pleased, though he took the liberty of suggesting a few revisions. Hays, Mary. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist. Editor Brooks, Marilyn, Edwin Mellen. 244 Reviewers linked MH with Wollstonecraft, with results more often hostile than...
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...
politics	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	EBB had showed a keen interest in women's issues from early in life, when she seems to have been for some time a devotee of Mary Wollstonecraft . But she told Browning in 1845 that...

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