Authors: Lyndall Gordon
claimed that she knew Shelleyâ¦
: Silsbee Papers, box 8, folder 4.
CC's parting from Allegra
: Sent to join Byron in Venice on 28 Apr. 1818.
âCarissima Pisa'
: MWS in retrospect from Genoa to CC (19 Dec. 1822),
MWSL
, i, 299.
PBS and MM
: Silsbee Papers, box 7, folder 3.
Matilda: The narrator's preoccupation with her death may go back to Richardson's
Clarissa
which MWS reread between June and Aug. 1819, immediately after her son died. The title of the first draft of
Matilda
was âFields of Fancy', close to MW's unfinished âCave of Fancy'. It's not easy to be sure what is the link.
âoften did quiescenceâ¦'
: MWS, âLife of Godwin', 97.
âMinerva'
: Byron spoke of MM as âClaire's Minerva' to MWS.
âI madeâ¦'
: CC to her Viennese sister-in-law, Antonia Clairmont (16 Aug. 1856),
ClCor
, 578.
âLet meâ¦': MWSJ
(25 Feb. 1822), 399â400.
CC to Byron about Allegra
: Silsbee Papers, box 8, folder 4.
Allegra's death
: Said to be either from typhus or âafter a convulsive catarrhal attack'.
âThat he should hateâ¦'
: MM to MWS, who was assisting Byron in Genoa (1 Feb. [1823]). Abinger: Dep. c. 517.
CC's silence
: There is one exception. MM mentions to MWS having received a letter from CC in St Petersburg (10 Sept. 1823), saying that she was reasonably satisfied with her situation. Ibid. Not in
ClCor
.
MWS's âtreasure'â¦
:
MWSJ
(2 Oct. 1822), 429. Charlotte Brontë, then four years old, was another strong character who said the same, seventeen years later: The human heart has hidden treasures In secret kept, in silence sealedâThe unseen space where a governess had to exist led to the explosiveness of her submerged words. When the Brontë sisters revealed their thoughts by night as they marched around the dining-room table in their Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte's friend Ellen Nussey thought they blew out the candles for economy. But darkness was a liberating cover; invisibility, a form of freedom.
âout of his hand'
:
CCJ
(8 Jan. 1827), 407.
âMy soul'
: Ibid., n.d., 429.
MW mocked a showcase education
:
RW
, ch. 12 (on national education).
âThey educate a childâ¦'
: To MWS from Moscow (29 Apr. 1825),
ClCor
, i, 215.
âYou writeâ¦'
: 29 Nov. 1842.
MWSL
, iii.
domestic trials in Russia
:
ClCor
, i, 222.
âFrom Morning till Night'
: CC to MWS (24 Mar. 1832), ibid., i, 286.
âmisery'
: CC in Moscow to Jane Williams (27 Oct. 1825), ibid., i, 230.
âThe world is closedâ¦'
: 30 Jan. 1827,
CCJ
, 411.
âthe most contemptible of all livesâ¦'
: 25 Feb. 1822,
MWSJ
, 399.
âI believeâ¦'
: Ibid., 554.
âComposing;
: (17 Nov. [1822?]). Abinger: Dep. c. 517.
âI can, I do.,'
: MWS to Jane Williams (7 Mar. 1823),
MWSL
, i, 320.
sensitivity and public effectiveness
: See J. S. Mill,
The Subjection of Women
, ch. 3.
âmind appeared more noble'
: Revelation of her past for her Tighe daughters.
Advice
completes MW's work
: St Clair, âGodwin as Children's Bookseller', 179.
âTeach a beingâ¦'
;
cultivate
courage:
Advice
, 330, 342.
Vaccà 's comments on
Advice: MM to MWS (12 Sept. [1823]). Abinger: Dep. c. 517.
correspondence with Dr Parkman
: MM initiated the correspondence in 1816. Parkman had proposed an asylum in 1814, and went on to write a pamphlet (1817) on the management of the insane. MM owned a copy, and also his book
On Hysteria
. He was murdered in 1849, aged about fifty-eight, by Professor John W. Webster, MD, in the New Medical College, Boston. For further details see Oliver Wendell Holmes,
The Benefactors of the Medical School of Harvard University
(Boston: 1850). Some of Parkman's remedies suggest a self-absorbed crackpot conjoined with the man of sense.
MM's revelation of her past to her daughters
: Pf.
SC
, viii, 909â11.
stray scrap
: Pf., Cini Papers, folder 26.
The Sisters of Nansfield: Published in London. Copy in Bodleian.
Casa Lupi
: On what was then the Via San Lorenzo. Now numbers 15â19 on the corner of the present-day Via Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri. It does seem appropriate that she should have lived in a street later named after her medical mentor.
Accademia di Lunatici
: Alternatively, the name may have come from the Lunar Society of Birmingham (see Uglow,
Lunar Men
), which included Darwin and Priestley, both published by Johnson and known to MW.
centre of town
: 1069 Via della Faggiola.
âNothing can equalâ¦'
: 26 Oct. 1832,
ClCor
, i, 290â1.
âsingular family': CC to MWS (16 Sept, 1834), ibid., i, 313.
âamor della patria': Cini's
Avvertimento
to posthumous Italian edition of MM's
Advice
. Pf.
George Eliot's tribute: Middlemarch
, concluding paragraph.
CC was buried
: At the cemetery of S. Maria in the commune of Bagno a Ripoli, about three and a half miles from Florence. (Photos in Pf.) She had told one William Graham of her wish to be buried with Allegra. Graham, letter (5 Jan. 1894), Cini Papers, Pf.
âthe subterraneous community of women'
: Shelley's entry in
MWSJ
, 32. The evening before, Thursday 6 Oct. 1814, CC had read some of MW's letters.
âThe party of free women'
:
ClCor
, i, 314â15.
18
GENERATIONS
ânot the experience of one life onlyâ¦'
: T. S. Eliot,
The Dry Salvages
: II.
Thompson's aim
;
reprinted passages
from RW: Taylor,
Wollstonecraft
, 248.
Mary Wollstonecraft [sister-in-law]
:
Boston Monthly Magazine
, i (Aug. 1825), 126â35. Publ. under the pseudonym of D'Anville.
Distinguished Women: âFemale Biography: Containing Notices of Distinguished Women', in
Dictionary of Christian Biography
(Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, 1834) by Samuel Knapp. (Discovered in the Bodleian Library by Professor Kathryn Sutherland.) Knapp, the proprietor of the
Boston Monthly Magazine
, had clearly met this Mary Wollstonecraft. He tells us that she craved sun, and after Charles died in 1817, transplanted herself (taking her stepdaughter, Charles's daughter from an earlier marriage) from New Orleans to Cuba. She had no children. Charles had joined the American army where he remained and had been promoted.
âsurprised'
: De Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
, trans. George Lawrence, ed. J. P. Mayer (New York: Doubleday/Anchor, 1969), 590â1 (âEducation of Girls in the US').
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and MW
: See Margaret Reynolds's introduction to her critical edition of
Aurora Leigh
(Ohio University Press, 1992), 12â19, and notes 60â65. With thanks to Mark Bostridge for passing this on, as well as the fact that Barrett Browning refuted a suggestion that Florence Nightingale's ministry in the Crimea could be accounted a step gained for her sex.
George Eliot and MW
:
Daniel Deronda
(1876), ch. 17. See George Eliot to Rabbi Deutsch:
Letters
, v, 160â1. With thanks again to Mark Bostridge whose
Vera Brittain: A Life
, 366, reveals that she, too, was bent on fictionalising elements of MW's life. Her novel (which never got beyond the planning stage) was to be set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, and entitled: âBehold This Dawn'. More recent novelists Frances Sherwood and Michèle Roberts have also fictionalised elements of MW's life.
George Eliot links MW and Margaret Fuller
: âMargaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft',
Westminster Review
(13 Oct. 1855), repr. in George Eliot
, Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings
(Penguin Classics, 1990), 332â8. Fuller's work was published in 1843.
âwhat is now called the nature of womenâ¦': The Subjection of Women
, ch. 1. Mill was the first to back women's suffrage in the British Parliament, by presenting a petition signed by nearly 1500 women and speaking in favour of amending Disraeli's Reform Bill of 1867 to read âperson' rather than âman'.
six generations
:
The Voyage Out
, ch. 16.
â
The great problem is the true nature of woman'; âalmost unclassified
':
A Room of One's Own
(1929; originated in talks for women students at Newnham College and for the ODTAA Society at Girton College, Cambridge University, in 1928). A decade later Virginia Woolf again circled the mystery of âour still unknown psychology' in
Three Guineas
.
âI am a rising character'
:
Villette
(1853), ii, ch. 27.
â“Nature” is what we knowâ¦'
: â“Nature” is what we see', in
Poems of Emily Dickinson
, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (London: Faber, 1975), no. 668; Variorum Edition, ed. R.W. Franklin (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1998), no. 721.
âLet usâ¦trust our whole nature'
: Lyndall Gordon,
A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women
(London: Vintage; New York: Norton, 1999), 107.
â
grande nature
'
: Henry James, Preface to
The Portrait of a Lady
(1881).
âWho was sheâ¦'
: Ibid., ch. 12.
MW against violence
; â
the real savages
': One of her last pieces of writing was about ârapacious whites' savaging and exploiting the indigenous inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope. Review of the English translation of M. Levaillant,
New Travels into the interior Parts of Africa, by Way of the Cape of Good Hope
,
AR
(May 1797);
MWCW
, vii, 479â84. Cited by Taylor,
Wollstonecraft
, 240â1.
heard the lash
:
RM
. See ch. 7 above.
group portrait
: The artist was Benjamin Robert Haydon, a protégé and critic of Fuseli. See ch. 8 above.
Benedict on MW
: Publ. after her death in
Writings of Ruth Benedict: An Anthropologist at Work
, ed. Margaret Mead (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959).
Virginia Woolf on MW
: âMary Wollstonecraft', first publ. in 1929; repr.
The Common Reader
, 2nd series (1932).
âa great season of liberation'
: 31 Dec. 1932,
The Diary of Virginia Woolf
, ed. Anne Olivier Bell, iv (London: Hogarth; New York: Harcourt, 1982), 134.
the edifice of power
: Joan Smith,
Moralities
, is a timely political analysis of mass opinion outside the old power structures, questioning their morality in the twenty-first century.
âOutsider Society'
: Woolf,
Three Guineas
, ch. 3.
âenfranchised till death'
: 28 Apr. 1938,
The Diary of Virginia Woolf
, v, 137.
Women who imitate men lack ambition
: The most politically effective use of this phrase that I've heard came in a speech by Hilary Reynolds of the SABC at a breakfast in Cape Town (2 Aug. 2002) to mark fifty years of a women's programme. Following her, Opposition MP Patricia de Lille was cheered by an almost all-women audience for her speech on government neglect of widespread sexual abuse as well as of the AIDS epidemic ravaging the country. A foremost candidate for blame was a woman health minister, a sycophant of President Mbeki's protracted reluctance to supply life-saving drugs to his dying people. Instead, Mbeki, following Mandela's sales of weapons to brutal regimes, chose to spend billions on weaponry.
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ââ
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ââ
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ââ
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ââ
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ââ
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ââââ-
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ââ
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