Vindication (79 page)

Clarke, Norma,
The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters
(London: Pimlico, 2004)

Clemit, Pamela,
The Godwinian Novel: Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown and Mary Shelley
(1993)

——‘Philosophical Anarchism in the Schoolroom: William Godwin's Juvenile Library, 1805–25',
Biblion: Bulletin of the New York Public Library
(2000/2001), 44–70

Colley, Linda,
Britons: Forging a Nation 1707–1837
(Yale University Press, 1992, repr. Pimlico, 1994)

Cone, Carl B.,
The English Jacobins: Reformers in Late Eighteenth-Century England
(New York: Scribner, 1968)

Coombs, Tony,
Tis a Mad World at Hogsdon: A Short History of Hoxton and Surrounding Area
(London: Hoxton Hall in association with the London borough of Hackney, 1995)

Crawford, Elizabeth, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: “the first of a new genus”',
Antiquarian Book Monthly
(Dec. 1995), 14–19. An accurate publishing history

——
Dictionary of Women's Suffrage: A Reference Guide
(London: Routledge, 2000)

——
Enterprising Women: The Garretts and Their Circle
(London: Francis Boutle, 2002)

Curelli, Mario,
Una Certa Signora Mason: Romantici inglesi a Pisa ai tempi di Leopardi
(Pisa: Ets, 1997). Reports on MM's unpublished fiction

——‘Lady Mountcashell alias Madame Mason', in
Leopardi in Pisa
, ed. Fiorenza Ceragioli (Milan: Electa, 1998), 304–20. With thanks to Cristina Dazzi for the gift of this beautifully produced and informative collection of essays to celebrate an exhibition on Leopardi in Pisa

Del Vivo, Caterina, ‘The “Beautiful Vaccà”' in
Leopardi in Pisa
, ed. Fiorenza Ceragioli (Milan: Electa, 1998), 274–81

Diedrick, James, ‘
Jane Eyre
and
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
',. in
Approaches to Teaching Jane Eyre
(New York: MLA, 1993)

Dolan, Brian,
Ladies of the Grand Tour
(London: Flamingo, 2002)

Dorfman, Joseph, ‘Joel Barlow: Trafficker in Trade and Letters',
Political Science Quarterly,
lix (1944), 83–100

Draper, Lyman C.,
The Life of Daniel Boone
(Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1998)

Dunn, Jane,
Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978)

Durant, William Clark. Extensive biographical research in the Supplement to his edn of WG's
Memoirs
(1927; repr. New York: Haskell House, 1969), pp. 138–347

Elliott, Lawrence,
The Long Hunter: A New Life of Daniel Boone
(London: Allen & Unwin, 1977)

Ellman, Mary,
Thinking about Women
(London: Virago, 1979)

Elwood, Mrs Ann,
Memoirs of Literary Ladies in England
(London: 1843). Sympathetic to MW, in contrast with feminists like Harriet Martineau who shunned a historical connection with a woman touched by scandal

Emerson, Oliver Farrar, ‘Notes on Gilbert Imlay, Early American Writer',
PMLA
, xxxix/1 (June 1924), 406–39

Everest, Kelvin, ed.,
Revolution in Writing: British Literary Responses to the French Revolution
(Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991). The responses are Hannah More's, MW's, Paine's and Shelley's

Falco, Maria J., ed.,
Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft
(Penn State University Press, 1996)

Faragher, John Mack,
Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
(New York: Henry Holt, 1992)

Favret, Mary A., ‘Mary Wollstonecraft and the Business of Letters', in
Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters
(Cambridge University Press, 1993), 96–132

Ferguson, Moira,
Colonialism and Gender from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1993). See the chapter on MW and slavery

Ferguson, Robert A., ‘The American Enlightenment 1750–1820', in
Cambridge History of American Literature
, ed. Sacvan Bercovitch, i (Cambridge University Press, 1994), 345–537

Flexner, Eleanor,
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Biography
(New York: Coward, McCann, 1972)

Follini, Tamara, ‘Improvising the Past in
A Small Boy and Others
',
Yearbook of English Studies
, xxx (2000), 106–23. This essay on Henry James's autobiography was the most original stimulus for thinking about the autobiographical element in MW's Travels

Forster, Margaret,
Significant Sisters: The Grassroots of Active Feminism 1838–1939
(Penguin Books, 1986)

Foster, R. F,
Modern Ireland 1600–1972
(1988; repr. Penguin Books, 1989)

——‘Remembering 1798', in
The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland
(Penguin Books, 2001)

Fraser, Antonia,
The Weaker Vessel: Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984; repr. Methuen, 1985)

——
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001)

Frimansson, Inger, ‘Från de unkna matsalarna'. Gez,
Litteraturhistoria Engelsk
Nc. 07,
Geografi Sverige Reseskildringar
(Svensk bokhandel, xliii/29, 1994). A response to Per Nyström,
MW's Scandinavian Journey
. Copy in the Swedish National Library, Stockholm

Garnett, Richard,
Athenaeum
(15 Aug. 1903). Conjectures place and date of GI's death; has not been disproved

Garrett, Martin,
Mary Shelley
(British Library, 2002)

Gerhardt, Sue,
Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain
(London: Routledge, 2004)

Gerzina, Gretchen,
Black England: Life before Emancipation
(London: Allison & Busby, 1999)

Gittings, Robert, and Jo Manton,
Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys
(Oxford University Press, 1992)

Graham, Kenneth W, ed.,
William Godwin Reviewed: A Reception History 1783–1834
(New York: AMS Press, 2001)

Gubar, Susan, ‘Feminist Misogyny: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Paradox of “It Takes One to Know One”', in Diane Elam and Robyn Wiegman, eds,
Feminism Beside Itself
(London: Routledge, 1995)

——and Sandra Gilbert,
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-
Century Literary Imagination (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979)

Gunther-Canada, Wendy,
Rebel Writer: Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment Politics
(DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001)

Haraszti, Zoltán,
John Adams and the Prophets of Progress
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1952), 187–234. Unselective, hard-to-follow description of Adams's fascinating marginalia to Wollstonecraft's
French Revolution
. Easier to see the point of Adams's response by looking at his actual copy in the Boston Public library.

Hardyment, Christina,
Perfect Parents: Baby-care Advice Past and Present
(Oxford University Press, 1995)

Harmon, Claire,
Fanny Burney: A Biography
(London: HarperCollins, 2000)

Harper, Charles G.,
Stagecoach and Mail
(London: Chapman & Hall, 1903)

Hay, Carla H., ‘James Burgh',
Biographical Dictionary of Modern British Radicals
, i (Brighton: Harvester, 1979)

Herman, Judith Lewis,
Trauma and Recovery: From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
(London: Pandora, 1992; repr. 2001)

Hill, Bridget, ‘The Links between Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay: New Evidence',
Women's History Review
, iv/2 (1995), 177–92

Hill-Miller, Katherine C., ‘
My hideous Projeny': Mary Shelley, William Godwin and the Father–Daughter Relationship
(Newark: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995)

Hirsch, Pam, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: A Problematic Legacy', in
Wollstonecraft's Daughters: Womanhood in England and France, 1780–1920
, ed. Clarissa Campbell Orr (Manchester University Press, 1996). Sensitive account of MW's reputation

Holmes, Richard,
Shelley: The Pursuit
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974)

——‘Mary Wollstonecraft and Gilbert Imlay in France', in
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer
(Penguin Books, 1985)

——‘The Feminist and the Philosopher', in
Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer
(London: HarperCollins, 2000)

——‘Death and Destiny',
Guardian Book Review
(24 Jan. 2004)

Howarth, Janet, ‘Gender, Domesticity, and Sexual Politics', in
The Short Oxford History of the British Isles: The Nineteenth Century
, ed. Colin Matthew (Oxford University Press, 2000), 162–93

Hufton, Olwyn,
The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe
, i:
1500–1800
(London, 1995; HarperCollins/Fontana, repr. 1997)

Imlay, Hugh and Nella,
The Imlay Family
(Zanesville, Ohio, 1958)

Jacobs, Diane,
Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
(London: Abacus; New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001)

Janes, R. M., ‘On the Reception of
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
,'
Journal of the History of Ideas
, xxxix (1978), 293–302

Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri,
American Espionage
(London: MacMillan, 1977)

——
Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence
(Yale University Press, 2002)

Johnson, Daphne,
On the Trail of the Wollstonecraft Family History
(2002) www.daphnejohnson.btinternet.co.uk/wollstonecraft/TheBook.htm

Jones, Vivien, ‘“The Tyranny of the Passions”: Feminism and Heterosexuality in the Fiction of Wollstonecraft and Hays', in Sally Ledger, Josephine McDonagh and Jane Spencer (eds),
Political Gender: Texts and Contexts
(London: Harvester, 1994), 173–88

——‘The Death of Mary Wollstonecraft',
British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies
, xx/2 (autumn 1997)

——Lecture on ‘Mary Wollstonecraft and Sex Education', St Hugh's College, Oxford (19 Feb. 2001)

Jones, W. H. S.,
A History of St Catherine's College
(Cambridge University Press, 1936)

Jordan, Elaine, ‘Criminal Conversation: On Mary Wollstonecraft's
The Wrongs of Woman
',
Women's Writing
, iv/2 (1997), 221–34. Contemporary legal context

Kaplan, Cora, ‘Wild Nights: Pleasure/Sexuality/Feminism', in
Sea Changes: Culture and Feminism
(London: Verso, 1986)

Keane, John,
Tom Paine: A Political Life
(Bloomsbury, 1995)

Keats-Shelley Journal
, special issue, 1997

Kelly, Gary,
Women, Writing and Revolution 1790–1827
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)

——Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft
(London: Macmillan, 1992; New York: St Martin's Press, 1996)

——Notes to the World's Classics editions of
Mary
and
WW.

Kelly, Linda,
Women in the French Revolution
(Penguin Books, 1989)

King-Hall, Magdalen,
Eighteenth-Century Story
(London: Peter Davies, 1956). A fictionalisation of the relations of MW and Lady Mary King

King-Harmon, Anthony Lawrence,
The Kings of King House
(privately publ., 1996)

King-Harmon, Robert Douglas,
The Kings, Earls of Kingston: An account of the Family and their Estates in Ireland between the reigns of the two Queens Elizabeth
(privately publ., Cambridge: Heffer, 1959)

Kramnick, Miriam Brody, introduction to
RW
(Penguin Books, 1982)

Laver, James,
Taste and Fashion: From the French Revolution until Today
(London: Harrap, 1945)

Le Doeuff, Michèle,
The Sex of Knowing
, trans. Kathryn Hamer and Lorraine Code (London: Routledge, 2004)

Lorch, Jennifer,
Mary Wollstonecraft: The Making of a Radical Feminist
(Providence, RI: Berg, 1990). Argues that
WW
is more relevant to the concerns of present-day feminism than
RW

Loudon, Irvine,
The Tragedy of Childbed Fever
(Oxford University Press, 2000)

Lucas, E. V., introduction to reprint of MW's
Original Stories from Real Life
(London: Henry Frowde, 1906). Interesting for its virulence against MW more than a century after
publication; sees children enslaved to overbearing woman; Mrs Mason is presented as precursor to Mrs Proudie (in Trollope's
Barchester Towers
). Tells more about misogyny at the height of the suffragettes' activity than about what captivated Margaret King

MacCarthy, Fiona,
Byron: Life and Legend
(London: John Murray, 2002)

MacMahon, K. A.,
Beverley
(Silsden, Yorkshire: Dalesman Publishing Co., 1973)

McAleer, Edward C.,
The Sensitive Plant
(1958). Biography of Margaret Mount Cashell (
née
Margaret King)

McCullough, David,
John Adams
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001)

McMillan, James F.,
France and Women 1789–1914: Gender, Society and Politics
(London: Routledge, 2000)