INDEX
Addison, Joseph
advice literature 129–140
Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’ 65 American Revolution 42,
47,
63,
221–222 passim
titles of MW’s works associationist psychology 24,
25,
27 Augustine of Hippo, St. 103,
115 Sense and Sensibility 156 Bage, Robert
Barbauld, Anna Letitia 25,
43,
45,
131–132,
141,
146,
152–154,
157,
164,
176–177,
180,
182
Appeal to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts 153 “Essay on the Origin and Progress of Novel Writing” 146
Hymns in Prose for Children
153,
176 “The Rights of Woman” 153–154,
177–178
Barker-Benfield, G. J. 266 Bishop, Elizabeth Wollstonecraft (MW’s sister) 8,
9,
14,
15,
22,
232 marriage to Meredith Bishop 17
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The
165
Songs of Innocence and Experience
44,
161 Brissot de Warville, J.-P. 43
Thoughts on Education
126,
133 Burke, Edmund 3,
45–48 passim,
50,
51,
55,
57,
60,
61,
64,
111,
115,
128,
135,
137,
248 Burney, Sarah Harriet
Byron, George Gordon, sixth baron 8,
19 Carter, Elizabeth 10,
164 Ceaucescu, Nikolai and Elena 264
Letters on the Improvement of the Mind
121 Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth earl of
Clifford, James
Constitution, English 47,
51,
61
Sandford and Merton
29,
30,
32 Dissenters 25,
42–44,
47,
59,
107,
108,
110,
111,
114,
123,
125–127,
131,
132,
135,
143,
152 domestic sphere as national sphere 147–152
Duff, William 235–237 passim
Dyson, George
Parent’s Assistant, The
38
Letters for Literary Ladies
155 and National Schools 34–36,
63 Enlightenment, Age of 22,
47,
53,
99,
107,
108,
119,
132,
133,
136,
141,
262 femininity 228–230 passim,
235–243
and advice literature 119–140
and MW’s literary reviews 82–98
as ideological critique of literature 160–188
of MW, compared to her female contemporaries 141–159
political traditions of 42–58
religious basis of MW’s 99–118
twentieth-century histories of 246–269
Fénelon, François
Instructions to a Governess 129 Fenn, Eleanor
Cobwebs to Catch Flies
38 French Revolution 2,
4,
8,
19,
32,
46,
47,
52,
54,
56,
59–80,
104,
135,
199,
221,
250–252
and Declaration of the Rights of Men and of Citizens 48,
55,
62 and French national character 54–55,
70–71,
73–75,
77,
78 and National Assembly 55,
62,
72–75
Fuseli, Henry 12,
13,
19,
64,
132,
165,
180,
229,
230,
232,
233 gender
and civil humanism 48–52,
228 and education
critiqued in MW’s Reviews 82–94
Genlis, Mme de (Stephanie-Felicité)
and radical circles 233–234
and sex/gender deviance 228–243
Glorious Revolution 42,
47,
59 Godwin, William 2,
7,
11–13,
19–22 passim,
26,
37,
43,
45,
46,
50,
52,
56,
84,
100,
101,
143,
165,
166,
190,
200,
202,
225,
232–234 passim,
250,
262 Memoirs 2,
3,
12,
13,
101,
102,
145,
154–155,
163,
183,
229–231,
237,
262 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 19
Sorrows of Young Werther
19,
20,
102 Gray, Thomas
“Ode on a Distant Prospect” 161 “The Progress of Poetry” 183 and Scottish Enlightenment 133,
135
Comparative View of the State and Faculties of the Mind
132,
133 Hays, Mary 8,
10,
15,
22,
25,
101,
114,
141,
142–146,
157,
233,
267
Appeal to the Men of Great Britain
144
Cursory Remarks on an Enquiry
143
Memoirs of Queens Illustrious and Celebrated
146 heteronormativity
Hutcheson, Francis 44,
45 Imlay, Gilbert 2,
10–13 passim,
15,
19–21,
67,
68,
77,
166,
180,
229,
230–232,
249–250
Inchbald, Elizabeth
independence 33,
37,
43,
45,
49,
50,
57,
125,
126,
128,
135,
138 Islam
Johnson, Joseph 9,
11,
12,
15,
18,
25,
26,
28,
43,
59,
64,
82–84,
130–132,
183 Lavater, Thomas
liberty 42,
44,
47,
49,
50,
52,
59–61 passim,
66,
73,
75,
76,
108,
109,
126,
132,
135,
137,
180,
182,
211,
221
Second Treatise of Government
60
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
24,
26,
125 Louis XVI (King of France) 64,
65,
251 Macaulay, Catharine 11,
25,
39,
42,
43,
45,
47,
55,
145,
146,
182,
232,
240
Letters on Education
25,
32 MacKenzie, Henry
Marguerite (MW’s maid) 232 Marie Antoinette (Queen of France) 49,
61,
62,
67 Mathias, T. J.
Pursuits of Literature
180 Milton, John 4,
19,
109,
115,
126,
130,
135,
136,
150,
165,
167,
168,
217 modesty 33,
35,
36,
39,
116,
131,
142,
148,
155,
178,
181 Montague, Lady Mary Wortley 10
Fables for the Fair Sex
127 More, Hannah 25,
37,
104,
105,
121,
123,
141,
147–152,
153,
156,
157,
260,
267
Essays on Various Subjects
148
Strictures on Female Education
37,
148,
150–152 passim
as normative basis of solidarity 198 ff. Opie, Amelia Alderson 7,
15,
232 Orleans, Duke d’ (Philippe Égalité) 55 Ovid
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins 2,
12
Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to Her Absent Daughters, An
124 Price, Richard 3,
25,
43–45 passim,
50,
53,
59,
60,
107,
108,
125
Discourse on the Love of Our Country
59
Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty
47 Review of the Principal Questions and Difficulties of Morals, A 109,
111 public sphere
women writers and 141–159
radicals 15,
25,
30,
31,
35,
43–45,
47,
54,
59–79 passim,
102,
107,
108,
122,
123,
125,
126,
128,
132,
156,
179,
184,
211,
212,
226,
234 reason 7,
12,
21,
25–38 passim,
62,
69,
71–76 passim,
82–94 passim,
100,
101,
107–116 passim,
123–138 passim,
147,
148,
152,
153,
156,
167–179 passim,
184,
263
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
181,
258
Sir Charles Grandison
190 rights
and liberal feminism 141–146
discourses of 42–58,
59–81
Robespierre, Maximilien 43 Thoughts on the Condition of Women (Randall, Anne Frances) 146 romantic friendship 194–195
Rousseau, Emile 19,
28,
29,
33,
34,
36,
105,
115,
116,
135,
160,
190 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 3,
28,
29,
44,
48,
51,
63,
84,
102,
109,
135,
141,
160,
200,
236,
248 Rowan, Archibald Hamilton 15 Savile, George (Marquis of Halifax)
scriptures
self-help 24–41 passim,
50,
51,
119–140 passim
sensibility 44–46,
48–49,
61,
62,
69,
102,
105,
132,
133,
143,
149–150,
168,
241,
248 ff. and MW’s reputation 246–270
MW’s attitude toward 82–98
sentimentality
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal 19,
20 sex and sexuality 1,
5,
20,
36,
39,
65,
112–116,
119–120,
135 ff.,
151,
228,
229,
233 Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, seventh earl of 44 Shakespeare, William 4,
28,
130,
131,
164,
167,
200,
206,
217,
231
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
168 Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (MW’s daughter) 12,
184 “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” 184 Shelley, Sir Percy Florence 12 Smith, Adam
Smith, Patricia Juliana 155 Sentimental Journey, A 197 Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice de 49 MW’s ambivalence about 209–229
virtue 14,
25,
27,
30,
32–36,
43–52 passim,
61,
62,
66,
71,
72,
93,
99,
100,
105,
106,
109–116 passim,
119,
125–134 passim,
137,
138,
142–153 passim,
161,
166,
167,
176,
179 Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de 65,
141,
180
Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex
152 White, James
Williams, David
Letters Written in France
62 Wollstonecraft, Charles (MW’s brother) 15 Wollstonecraft, Edward (MW’s brother) 16 Wollstonecraft, Edward John (MW’s father) 15 Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Dickson (MW’s mother) 17 Wollstonecraft, Fanny (MW’s daughter) 19,
26,
37,
38,
212 Wollstonecraft, Mary
and “rational passion” 12,
48–49,
55 and relation to male poets 160–188
and travel to Scandinavia 9–11,
19,
209–226 passim
attempt to reconcile reason and passion 7,
12,
21,
83 ff. biographical traditions 1–2,
162–163,
229–230,
246–270
determination to become writer 9 ff. development as a feminist 82–94
dislocation, MW’s early experiences, of 211–214
life of, in Short Residences 209–227
and development of voice 82 and synthesis of reason and passion 82–94
works of
Analytical Review
4,
8,
18,
29,
32,
53,
62,
82 ff.,
130,
189,
190
Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
4,
8,
52,
53,
54,
67,
68,
69–77
violence in 76–77,
238–239
“Letter on the Present Character of the French Nation” 66
Letters on the Management of Infants
20,
24,
37,
38 Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (= Short Residence) 2,
4,
20,
53,
77–79,
100,
209–227,
259,
262–263,
267
Mary
2,
24,
53,
84,
105–108 passim,
115,
120,
125,
156,
189–198,
236–238,
240,
243 “On Poetry, and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature” (“On Artificial Taste”) 84,
91,
167,
234–235
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
24,
26–28,
33,
36,
100,
119,
120–130,
135,
136,
176,
181 Vindication of the Rights of Men, A 4,
8,
11,
12,
26,
32,
44,
45,
48,
49,
52,
55,
60,
108,
111,
128,
135,
165,
166
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A
1,
4,
8,
11,
12,
18,
26,
32,
37,
44,
49,
54,
57,
62,
63,
70,
84,
85,
87,
89,
90,
99,
106–108,
110–111,
114–115,
119,
122–123 and female education,
1–3,
32,
34–36,
39,
83,
89,
133–139 and MW’s intellectual development,
135 ff.,
141–157,
160,
203,
228–229,
232–233,
239–243,
248 religious basis of,
99–116
Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (eds. Butler and Todd) 2,
4
Wrongs of Woman, or Maria
2,
21,
24,
28,
30,
87,
92–93,
156,
184–185,
198–201,
240–243
women’s movement
and reception of MW 246–269,
246–270
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
167
Complaint, The, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
226