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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Wentworth Morton | The title-page quotes romantic, melancholy lines from Byron
's Childe Harold. Bottorff, William K., and Sarah Wentworth Morton. “Introduction”. My Mind and its Thoughts, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, pp. 5-16. 12 |
Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | This original version, which she copied into her Repository of her works, was written before Mary Wollstonecraft
(then aged only about twenty) had published anything. Its ideas go back to a revisionist letter about Adam... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Sargent Murray | JSM
's Observations on Female Abilities (published in four parts late in The Gleaner) is a substantial scholarly piece. Writing now as a man, she adopts an almost uniformly upbeat tone. She early invokes... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Julia O'Faolain | The topics covered in richly informative detail, far too many to enumerate, include a father's life-or-death rights over his offspring in ancient Greece, while such topics as buying and selling sex, or the relation... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Oakley | AO
's epigraph is from Mary Wollstonecraft
's travel letters. Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Oakley | Its chapter on education has an epigraph from Mary Wollstonecraft
. Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell. 202 |
Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | In London she met many artists, writers, and politically active reformists: as well as Godwin
, she met Elizabeth Inchbald
, Mary Wollstonecraft
(who impressed her deeply, and trusted her enough to confide her plans... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | This was John Opie's second marriage; his first wife had deserted him and their marriage had been dissolved by act of parliament. The second marriage remained childless. John Opie had been enjoying professional success in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Amelia Opie | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Bessie Rayner Parkes | In a section devoted to the physical development of women, BRP
criticizes the unrealistic, senseless, and erroneous Parkes, Bessie Rayner. Remarks on the Education of Girls. J. Chapman. 9 |
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. |
Literary responses | Hester Lynch Piozzi | |
Friends, Associates | Ann Radcliffe | While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR
) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks
, George Fordyce
, Ralph Griffiths
,... |
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. 81 |
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