Mary Shelley
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Standard Name: Shelley, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Married Name: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Pseudonym: Mary S.
Pseudonym: Mrs Caroline Barnard
MS
, long known almost exclusively for Frankenstein, is now being read for her later novels and her plays, as well as for her journals and letters. Her editing, reviewing, biographical, and journalistic work entitle her to the designation woman of letters. She is an important figure among women Romantics, and a channel for the reformist ideals of the 1790s forwards into the Victorian era.
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Occupation | Fanny Aikin Kortright | At her father's death it became necessary for FAK
and her unmarried sisters to find work, and they all became governesses. Her first job was at Bradford in Yorkshire, in the family of an... |
Occupation | Mary Wollstonecraft | She took strongly against the manners of the aristocracy but formed a strong bond with the eldest of her three pupils, Margaret King
, who was fourteen years old, tall and plain, with a wonderful... |
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... |
Literary Setting | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's introduction says that the world of this novel is a Bellamy-Morris-Wells world. Stratton, Susan. “Muriel Jaeger’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Question Mark</span>, a Response to Bellamy and Wells”. Foundation, No. 80, pp. 62-9. 65 |
Literary responses | Marie de Sévigné | For years MS
was ridiculed for her incorrect orthography, but in fact her unorthodox spelling was modern. It was that advocated by the reformers, participants in a movement to reduce the number of unphonetic letters... |
Literary responses | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli
and Edward Bulwer-Lytton
. Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 149 |
Literary responses | Beatrice Harraden | Marie Belloc Lowndes
described this book for the Times Literary Supplement as a strangely poignant drama and likened it to Mary Shelley
's Frankenstein and Sir Walter Scott
's Waverley for its comparable ability to... |
Literary responses | Caroline Herschel | Late in Herschel's long life the honours showered upon her generally recognised her as a woman scientist. By 1842 young ladies at or near Augusta, Georgia, USA, had formed a Caroline Herschel Association
—and... |
Literary responses | Fanny Holcroft | The Critical gave this novel a detailed notice starting from the proposition that FH
had not had critical justice because of unfair comparisons with her eminent father. It praised the contrast in personality between the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Jellicoe | With this play, Jellicoe deliberately broke with her earlier work by writing a narrative drama based on a pre-existing story. She was attracted to the subject of Percy Shelley's life
because it gave her the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Webster | During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor
characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism, Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol. 24 , No. 1, pp. 51-71. 61 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Atwood | Doctor Frankenstein begins as I, the performer / in the tense arena, Atwood, Margaret, and Charles Pachter. Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein. Cranbrook Academy of Art. i |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Atwood | Several of these poems, like Death of a Young Son by Drowning, treat actual incidents of Moodie's life while transforming the plaintive tone adopted in Moodie's own narratives into one of tragedy. Atwood's handling... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton contains remarkable scenes of domestic life amongst the working classes and harrowing portraits of industrial suffering, particularly the oozing cellar where a friend of the Bartons dies. Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton. Editor Foster, Jennifer, Broadview. 97-9 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | The plot concerns an English governess to an Italian family in Rome, who opposes the love which develops between her and the grown-up son. AL
plants allusions to Jane Eyre and to famous English... |
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