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.

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Reception Hildegarde of Bingen
In recent times she has made a rapid transition from being unknown to being fashionable for her music and moderately well known for her writings. Her letters were edited in English translation in 1994 and...
Reception Ella D'Arcy
EDA 's slim output has made it easier for posterity to ignore her. But both Arnold Bennett and Ford Madox Ford thought highly of her.
Fisher, Benjamin Franklin. “Ella D’Arcy: A Commentary with a Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography”. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1992, pp. 179-11.
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Mix, Katherine Lyon. A Study in Yellow: The Yellow Book and Its Contributors. Greenwood Press, 1969.
236
Katherine Mix discussed her work in A Study...
Textual Features Mary Stott
Here MS writes grippingly of her own life, and illuminatingly about myriad subjects of public or cultural interest: the lives, customs, and deaths of newspapers, the conspiracy of silence about sex which had not dissipated...
Textual Features Anna Letitia Barbauld
She strikes a newly bold, almost an insurrectionary note here, calling upon revolutionary France, indeed, to provide a model. [W]hatever is corrupted must be lopt away, she writes, as people assert their long forgotten...
Textual Features Sophia King
This novel about the genesis of evil is told in the first person by its wicked yet pitiable male narrator, presented as a man of strong intellect and strong feeling, whose first words are What...
Textual Features George Eliot
Miss Arrowpoint saves herself, while Mirah, the young Jewish woman whom Daniel eventually marries, needs him to save her from a suicide attempt reminiscent of that of Mary Wollstonecraft . Gwendolen, at the climactic moment...
Textual Features Julia Kristeva
JK 's essay distinguishes three phases or generations in feminism. The first phase (whose opening can be dated from Wollstonecraft or from another pioneering feminist text) is associated with linear time and with agitation for...
Textual Features Priscilla Wakefield
PW welcomes the way that Adam Smith and other Scottish Enlightenment writers have made womanhood a branch of philosophy, not a little interesting.
qtd. in
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Unlike Wollstonecraft , she sees women's sphere as naturally limited and...
Textual Features Mary Russell Mitford
MRM has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins 's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron 's Childe Harold.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
1: 133, 152
She despises Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis as a delightful mixture of cant and affectation...
Textual Features Dorothy Wordsworth
What she does not write may sometimes be regretted. She recorded the arrival of Mary Wollstonecraft 's life, etc. (her Posthumous Works, including The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria) on 14 April 1798...
Textual Features Hannah Brand
This heroic tragedy (full title Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade) is given with passages restored that were omitted in performance. It is set in 1456 (three years after Constantinople, capital of the Christian...
Textual Features Anna Margaretta Larpent
This later diary, generally written daily at any odd moment, provides indexing of special events which reveals AML 's methodical character. Occasional months are missing here and there. The diarist offers penetrating comment on a...
Textual Features Ann Bridge
Though the authors declare on their opening page that the modern need is to supplement the exhaustive Baedeker with a selective guidebook (something designed to tell travellers what they cannot afford to miss), they actually...
Textual Features Hannah More
HM writes her Hints in full political consciousness of the likelihood that she is trying to shape a future ruler. Her claim to have remained uninfluenced by Wollstonecraft or Catharine Macaulay (whom she called patriotic...
Textual Features Hannah Cowley
For her preface HC clearly felt the need to back-pedal. I protest I know nothing about politics; will Miss Wolstonecraft forgive me—whose book contains such a body of mind as I hardly ever met with—if...

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