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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Cowden Clarke | Both Novellos were close friends of Mary Shelley
during the 1820s. Mary gave Vincent a lock of the hair of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft
. Crook, Nora. “Fourteen New Letters by Mary Shelley”. Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 62 , 2013, pp. 37-61. 43 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Lee | HL
turned down a marriage proposal from William Godwin
, recent widower of Mary Wollstonecraft
. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii. xxxiv |
| Friends, Associates | Catharine Macaulay | Friends she acquired at about this time included her new husband's sister, Elizabeth Arnold
(who fought the slanders after CM
's death by testifying to her irreproachable conduct in traditional female roles, and her Christian... |
| Friends, Associates | Ann Batten Cristall | ABC
and her brother Joshua met Wollstonecraft
in about 1788, and Joshua coresponded with her. A few years later Wollstonecraft told Joshua she wished that Ann could obtain a little more strength of mind instead... |
| 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
,... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Her close friends at this period included Mary
and Joseph Priestley
and a number of young women of her own age. She was particularly attracted by a pair of sisters who got themselves barred from... |
| Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Boswell's is Johnson's most famous friendship, but his women friends were immensely important to him. Carter and Lennox were joined by Hester Thrale
(though Johnson always reckoned her husband, Henry Thrale
, if anything the... |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Hunter | During her years at Blackheath AH
took in to live with her a teenage girl, Isabella Elliot
, the niece of a close friend, whose childhood had been burdened by quarrelling, unhappy parents, frequent moves... |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | |
| Friends, Associates | Robert Southey | Having early in his life admired writers like Mary Wollstonecraft
and Charlotte Smith
, he later numbered women writers such as Anna Eliza Bray
among his close friends. |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Inchbald | She was warm in her admiration for Godwin's Caleb Williams. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987. 95-7 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | MH
first met Mary Wollstonecraft
at the home of Joseph Johnson
. Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, 2004, pp. xv - xx; 1. xvi |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | EF
fully shared in her husband's friendship with William Godwin
. She exchanged visits with him, sometimes with one or other of her children, from the time she first entertained him in November 1788. He... |
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