Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
It is odd that although she lived in London when Wollstonecraft
published her Vindication, AJ
left no recorded comment on the issue of women's rights. This may be because surviving excerpts from her correspondence...
politics
Ann Martin Taylor
According to her son Isaac, AMT
harboured a pungent dislike of certain of the female sympathizers with the French Revolution, inclusive of Mary Wollstonecraft
.
Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge.
132
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...
politics
Harriet Martineau
For all the influences that might have been expected to predispose Martineau to admire the work of Mary Wollstonecraft
, she apparently despised the earlier writer as insufficiently self-sufficient. She called Wollstonecraft, with all her...
politics
John Milton
This is an argument which defends Milton's behaviour, and later Milton critics have offered different defences of him in the light of different ideas about what constitutes good behaviour in matters of gender. Meanwhile a...
politics
Charlotte Dacre
It appears from some of her poems (praise of Pitt
, dispraise of Fox
), as well as from her eldest son's name, that CD
was a Tory like her husband, or at least a...
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...
politics
Mary Gawthorpe
It was apparently MG
who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge.
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politics
Susanna Blamire
Several among SB
's poems reveal her sympathy (a feeling not sentimental but based on close personal knowledge and contact acquired as a medical visitor) for the harsh and arguably deteriorating conditions of the rural...
Roberts, Marie Mulvey et al., editors. “Introduction”. The Reformers: Socialist Feminism, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, p. xi - xv.
xii
Her deep involvement in the Owenite Socialist Movement
led her to translating work by French Saint-Simonians and...
Author summary
Samuel Johnson
Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ
achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and...
Publishing
Eliza Fenwick
As Lissa Paul has pointed out, she wrote not long after the appearance in earlier 1794 of the Second Report from the Committee of Secrecy, a progress report on government snooping into private affairs...
Publishing
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Barbauld probably wrote two anonymous articles on the recently-dead Mary Wollstonecraft
in the Monthly Visitor, 1798.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Publishing
Mary Shelley
During this year MS
helped her husband arrange the scenes in his incest-drama, The Cenci.
Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelley’s Mythological Dramas <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Midas</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Proserpine</span>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 385-11.
388
She worked on her own fiction to distract herself when prostrated by grief after the death of her...
Publishing
Virginia Woolf
The Nation and Athenæum printed VW
's essay on Mary Wollstonecraft
.
Woolf, Virginia, and Michèle Barrett. Women and Writing. Women’s Press.
