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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | That year HMW
was introduced by Dr John Moore
to Burns
, with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers
(in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi
, and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. The year... |
| Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | |
| Health | Adrienne Rich | After her third delivery she decided to be sterilised, though she met with social disapproval even from nurses caring for her in hospital: Had yourself spayed, did you? qtd. in O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, 15 June 2002, pp. Review 20 - 3. 22 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | This epistolary novel is highly political; its preface asserts a woman's right to interest in politics. The letters in it span the period from June 1790 to February 1792, tracking the events of the French... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Radcliffe | The timing suggests influence from Wollstonecraft
's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | She followed this the next year with another furious sixteen-page pamphlet (of which OCLC lists only two extant copies). Its inordinately lengthy title sets the tone: Extraordinary Narrative of an Outrageous Violation of Liberty and... |
| 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 | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson
asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Anne Barnard | Auld Robin Gray always enjoyed great popularity, and many hearers supposed LAB
's version to be traditional. One biographer writes, Antique ladies, with confident but erroneous memories, professed to have heard it often when they... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Radcliffe | MAR
focuses on the impossibility for middle-class women of earning an honest living, and the gradual male takeover of traditionally female jobs. She laments the fact that men no longer offer women adequate protection, and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Burney | FB
's dedication includes a discussion of the art of writing novels. Her final heroine, Juliet, faces even greater problems than her predecessors in negotiating the passage into the haven of marriage. At the outset... |
| 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 | Charlotte Smith | Here, under the rubric of writing only scenes of modern life and possible events and eschewing the craze for the wild, the terrible, and the supernatural, Smith, Charlotte. The Young Philosopher. Editor Kraft, Elizabeth, University Press of Kentucky, 1999. 5 |
| 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 | Catharine Macaulay | This reflective, original work had an important influence on Mary Wollstonecraft
. Wollstonecraft
wrote the notice of it in the Analytical Review, calling the author the woman of the greatest abilities . .... |
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