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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hands | A brief notice in the Analytical Review written (probably) by Mary Wollstonecraft
early in the year after publication treated EH
fairly scathingly. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols. 7: 203 |
| Literary responses | Catherine Hutton | Hutton transcribed onto the flyleaf of her own copy of Oakwood Hall (volume 3) an unattributed opinion, perhaps given before publication. This critic calls the book clever so far as it is a novel, and... |
| Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | A notice in the Analytical Review (perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
) complained that AY
did not deserve her current fame: she certainly has abilities, an independent mind and a feeling heart; but she was... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Bonhote | This book was highly successful. But an Analytical reviewer in January 1792 (who may have been Wollstonecraft
) was not impressed, finding trite sentiments expressed in bald language Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols. 7: 414 |
| Literary responses | Hester Mulso Chapone | Her brother John
wrote of the Praises that resound on all Sides following the publication of this book, though he regretted that reviewers, in praising the moral content, had ignored the literary style. qtd. in Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990. 231 |
| Literary responses | Mariana Starke | A good review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, in the Analytical, says: This interesting tale is told in easy flowing measures, and many sentiments occur that do honour to the writer's heart.. It... |
| Literary responses | Susanna Watts | The Critical Review thought The Wonderful Travels of Prince Fan-Feredin offered its readers a pleasant and harmless laugh Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2d ser. 11 (1794): 356 |
| Literary responses | Germaine de Staël | Mary Wollstonecraft
gave this work a poor review. |
| Literary responses | Cassandra Lady Hawke | Some reviews were highly respectful. The Critical, while it just touched on too great a profusion of ornamental description, concentrated on good points. The story is conducted with great skill; intricately entangled, without too... |
| Literary responses | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Mary Wollstonecraft
, though she saw many virtues in this book, was not happy that Adelaide was educated to be obedient, not independent-minded: that with all her accomplishments she was ready to marry any body... |
| Literary responses | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | The review in the Critical reflected annoyance that the author had (oddly, since she had on balance been favourably treated by this journal) called it ill-natured. qtd. in Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 67 (1789): 397 |
| Literary responses | Olaudah Equiano | This book was an immediate success in Britain, and in the USA it significantly influenced the emancipation movement. Equiano, Olaudah. “Introduction, etc”. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, edited by Angelo Costanzo, Peterborough, ON, 2001, pp. 7-37. 11, 7 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Inchbald | The novel was greeted in the Analytical Review, probably by Wollstonecraft
, as also in the Critical and the Monthly, with carefully discriminated and detailed praise. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols. 7: 369-70 Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 535-6 |
| Literary responses | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | English reviewers, for instance in the Gentleman's Magazine, were ready with their praise. Dow, Gillian. “The British Reception of Madame de Genlis’s Writings for Children: Plays and Tales of Instruction and Delight”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 29 , No. 3, 2006, pp. 367-81. 374 |
| Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | Beverly Lyon Clark
, who wrote an introduction to this book and thought extremely highly of it, argued that the neglect of it stemmed from its belonging not just to one but to several under-appreciated... |
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