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 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 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.
193
The innumerable children who loved and later remembered them included Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
Literary responses Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
English reviewers, for instance in the Gentleman's Magazine, were ready with their praise.
Dow, Gillian. “The British Reception of Madame de Genlis’s Writings for Children: Plays and Tales of Instruction and Delight”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
29
, No. 3, pp. 367-81.
374
Jane Austen implied in a letter of 1800 that the first volume of this work had left her mind stored...
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.
68 (1789): 495
Andrew Becket in the Monthly and Mary Wollstonecraft
Literary responses Elizabeth Inchbald
The Analytical reviewer, probably Wollstonecraft , was unimpressed: insipid dialogues . . . the characters are uninteresting caricatures, and the incidents, childish tricks.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering.
7: 166
Literary responses Olive Schreiner
The book is a landmark text. In an introduction to an edition of 1968, Doris Lessing (who first read it when she was fourteen) identified it as one of the few rare books ....
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 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 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 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...

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