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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Ann Jebb | 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 | James Tiptree Jr. | But it was not until she became a college student in her forties that she discovered feminism and women's writing, in a series that led her from Hannah Arendt
to Simone de Beauvoir
and then... |
| politics | Charlotte Dacre | |
| 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
. qtd. in Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge, 2011. 132 |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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 | 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. qtd. in Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996. 127 |
| politics | Lady Caroline Lamb | Like her birth family, LCL
strongly supported a Whig and reformist political agenda. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 85 qtd. in Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 86 |
| politics | Clara Reeve | CR
said that her father was an old Whig, and it appears that her own politics were of the same stamp. She favoured social reforms like improved education for women, and welcomed the early... |
| 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... |
| Author summary | Anna Wheeler | Anna Wheeler
has been called the most important feminist after Mary Wollstonecraft
and before Emmeline Pankhurst
. Roberts, Marie Mulvey et al., editors. “Introduction”. The Reformers: Socialist Feminism, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1995, p. xi - xv. xii |
| 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... |
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