Authors: Lyndall Gordon
Maxted, Ian,
The London Book Trades 1775â1800: A Topographical Guide
(Exeter, 1980)
Meinz, Manfred, âDie “Silberkammer” des Altonaer Museums',
Altoner Museum in Hamburg Jahrbuch 1966
, iv (Hamburg: D. R. Ernst Hauswedell Verlag), 38â75
Mellor, Anne K.,
Mary Shelley, Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters
(London: Routledge, 1988)
Miller, Victor Clyde, âJoel Barlow: Revolutionist London, 1791â2', in
Britannica
(Hamburg, 1932)
Mitchell, Juliet, and Ann Oakley, eds,
The Rights and Wrongs of Women
(Penguin Books, 1976; repr. 1977). Includes Margaret Walters, âThe Rights and Wrongs of Woman: Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau, Simone de Beauvoir'
Moers, Ellen,
Literary Women
(London: Women's Press, 1978)
Molden, Gunnar, âSølvbriggen Maria Margreteâut av historiens mørke' (New Historical Light on the Silver Brig), trans. Ingunn Siedler, with English summary, in
Norsk Sjøfartsmuseum årbok
(
Norwegian Maritime Museum Yearbook
, 1995, Oslo: 1996), 139â54
âââThe Silver Ship Emerging out of the Darkness of History', trans. Ingunn Siedler,
Agderposten
(31 Aug. 1996)
-âââNo Riches for the Descendants', trans. Ingunn Siedler,
Agderposten
(31 Aug. 1996)
âââThe Shipwreck that Never Was', trans. Ingunn Siedler,
Agderposten
(11 Apr. 1997)
ââ
Seilskute byen Arendal/Arendalâthe Town of Sailing Ships
, trans. Richard Nelson (Norway: Arfo, 1998)
Moore, Jane,
Mary Wollstonecraft
(Tavistock: Northcote House Publishers, 1999). British Council series on âWriters and their Work'. A balanced survey, stressing the ambition of MW's career, with a descriptive bibliography. An excellent introductory book
Morton, Brian N.,
Americans in Paris: An Anecdotal Guide to the Homes and Haunts of Americans from Jefferson to Capote
(1984; repr. New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1986)
Murray, Venetia,
High Society in the Regency Period 1788â1830
(Penguin Books, 1998)
Myers, Mitzi, âMary Wollstonecraft's
Letters Writtenâ¦in Sweden
: Toward Romantic Autobiography',
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
, xviii, ed. Roseann Runte (1979)
âââImpeccable Governesses, Rational Dames, and Moral Mothers: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Female Tradition in Georgian Children's Books',
Children's Literature
, xiv (1986), 31â54
âââPedagogy as Self-Expression in Mary Wollstonecraft', in Shari Benstock, ed.,
The
Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988). Argues persuasively that MW's work in a variety of genres âwants to be read as a species of autobiography'
Nehring, Cristina, âThe Vindications: the Moral Opportunism of Feminist Biography',
Harper's Magazine
(Feb. 2002), 60â5
Nitchie, Elizabeth, âAn Early Suitor of Mary Wollstonecraft',
PMLA
, lviii (Mar. 1943), 163â9
Norris, Pamela, âShe Longed for Security and Affection',
Literary Review
(Oct. 2000), 18â19
Nyström, Per,
Mary Wollstonecraft's Scandinavian Journey
, trans. George R. Otter (Gothenburg, 1980). Originally a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Gothenburg (autumn 1972)
Orr, Clarissa Campbell, ed.,
Wollstonecraft's Daughters: Womanhood in England and France, 1780â1920
(Manchester University Press, 1996)
Pakenham, Thomas,
The Year of Liberty: the Story of the Great Irish Rebellion of 1798
(London: Abacus, 2000), esp. 191, 247
Panajia, Alessandro, âThe New Accademia dei Lunatici', in
Leopardi in Pisa
, ed. Fiorenza Ceragioli (Milan: Electa, 1998), 322â6
Paul, C. Kegan,
William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries
, 2 vols (London: Henry S. King, 1876)
Pearson, J.,
Women's Reading in Britain, 1750â1835: A Dangerous Recreation
(Cambridge University Press, 1999), 79â82
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins,
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
(London: W. H. Allen, 1885)
Phillips, Melanie,
The Ascent of Woman
(London: Little, Brown, 2003)
Poovey, Mary,
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen
(University of Chicago Press, 1984)
ââ
Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England
(London: Virago, 1989)
Porter, Roy,
English Society in the Eighteenth Century
(Penguin Books, rev. edn 1990)
ââ
The Penguin Social History of Britain: English Society in the Eighteenth Century
(Penguin Books, 1982; rev. edn 1991)
Powell, David,
Tom Paine: The Greatest Exile
(London: Hutchinson, 1985; repr. 1989)
Power, Bill,
White Knights, Dark Earls: The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Irish Dynasty
(Cork: Collins Press, 2000)
Rauschenbusch-Clough, Emma,
A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman
(London: Longman's, Green & Co., 1898)
Ravetz, Alison, âThe Trivialisation of Mary Wollstonecraft: A Personal and Professional Career Re-Vindicated',
Women's Studies Forum
, vi/5 (1983), 491â9. Anticipates the approach of the present book
Rendall, Jane, âMary Wollstonecraft, History and Revolution',
Women's Writing
, iv: 2 (1997), 155â72
Reynolds, Margaret. Critical introduction to her edn of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Aurora Leigh
(Ohio University Press, 1992)
Ribeiro, Aileen,
Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715â1789
(Yale University Press, rev. edn 2002)
Ricci, Fulvia, âThe First Accademia dei Lunatici', in
Leopardi in Pisa
, ed. Fiorenza Ceragioli (Milan: Electa, 1998), 321
Roberts, Michèle,
Fair Exchange
(London: Virago, 2000). Fictionalisation of MW and GI.
Rusk, Ralph Leslie, âThe Adventures of Gilbert Imlay',
Indiana University Studies
, x/57 (Bloomington, Ind.: Mar. 1923). For decades the only available information on GI; limited and overused
Ryall, Anka. Introduction to Norwegian translation of Mary Wollstonecraft's
Travels
. âMary Wollstonecraft og kunsten Ã¥ reise',
Min nordiske reise
, trans. Per A. Hartun (Oslo: Pax, 1997), iâxviii
ââand Catherine Sandbach-Dahlström, eds,
Mary Wollstonecraft's Journey to Scandinavia: Essays
, Stockholm Studies in English, xcix (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2003)
St Clair, William, âWilliam Godwin as Children's Bookseller', in
Children and their Books
, eds Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs (Oxford University Press, 1989), 165â79
ââThe Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family
(London: Faber; New York: Norton, 1989)
ââ
The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
(Cambridge University Press, 2004) Sapiro, Virginia,
A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft
(University of Chicago Press, 1992)
Schama, Simon,
Citizens
(London: Allen Lane, 1989)
ââ
History of Britain
(London: BBC Publications, 2002)
Seelye, John,
Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Republican Plan 1755â1825
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1991). Informed treatment of Imlay as commentator on the frontier
Sen, Amartya, âElements of a Theory of Human Rights',
Philosophy and Public Affairs
, xxxiii (Fall 2004). Uses MW's ideas as a way of understanding the very idea of human rights
âââMary, Mary, Quite Contrary', talk at the Oxford conference of the International Association of Feminist Economists (Aug. 2004).
Showalter, Elaine,
Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage
(New York: Simon & Schuster; London: Picador, 2001)
Smith, Joan, âMary Wollstonecraft', essay for the Penguin website (2003)
ââ
Moralities: How to End the Abuse of Money and Power in the 21st Century
(Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 2002)
Spark, Muriel,
Mary Shelley: A Biography
, a revision of
Child of Light: A Reassessment of Mary Shelley
(1951, rev. edn New York: Dutton, 1987)
Steel, Mark,
Vive la Révolution:âA Standup History of the French Revolution
(New York: Scribner, 2003)
Steiner, Wendy, âWomen's Fiction', in the
Cambridge History of American Literature
, ed. Sacvan Bercovitch, vii (1940-â90), 505â16
Stephen, Leslie, âMary Wollstonecraft',
Dictionary of National Biography
Stocking, Marion Kingston, âMiss Tina and Miss Plin: the Papers behind
The Aspern Papers
', in Donald H. Reiman et al., eds,
The Evidence of the Imagination: Studies of Interaction between Life and Art in English Romantic Literature
(New York, 1978), 372â84, Quotes Richard Garnett's description of E. A. Silsbee as an amiable version of CC's old suitor Trelawny
Stone, Laurence,
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500â1800
(Penguin Books, rev. edn 1979)
Strachey, Ray,
The Cause
(1928; repr. London: Virago, 1974). Fascinating appendix: Florence Nightingale's outcry against the limitations of women's lives in her autobiographical writings of the 1860s âCassandra'.
Sunstein, Emily,
A Different Face: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
(New York, 1975)
ââ
Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality
(Little, Brown, 1989; repr. 1991)
Taylor, Barbara,
Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
(London: Virago, 1983)
ââ
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
(Cambridge University Press, 2003)
âââMary Wollstonecraft', entry in
The New Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford University Press, 2004)
âââMary Wollstonecraft and the Enlightenment', lecture, Oxford University (Hilary term, 2004)
Taylor, J. Lionel,
A Little Corner of London
(Lincoln: J. W. Ruddock, 1925). On Newington Green.
Tillyard, Stella,
Citizen Lord
(London: Vintage, 1998)
Tims, Margaret,
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Social Pioneer
(London: Millington Books, 1976)
Todd, Charles Burr,
Life and Letters of Joel Barlow: Poet, Statesman, Philosopher
(1886; repr. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970)
Todd, Janet,
Women's Friendship in Literature
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1980)
ââ
Gender, Art, Death
(1988; repr. Polity Press, 1995). Includes deaths of MW and Fanny Imlay
ââ
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; New York: Columbia University Press, 2000)
ââ
Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict, 1798
(London: Viking, 2003)
Tomalin, Claire, âA Fallen Woman: Reappraisal of
Letters to Imlay
by Mary Wollstonecraft', in
Several Strangers: Writing from Three Decades
(Penguin Books, 2000), pp. 19â23
ââ
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
(New York: Harcourt, 1974; rev. edn Penguin Books, 1992)
ââ
Shelley and His World
(1980; repr. Penguin Books, 1992)
ââIntroduction, with background on the history of Margaret Mount Cashell and her daughters, to MWS's story,
Maurice
(Penguin Books, 1997)
ââ
Jane Austen: A Life
(Penguin Books, 1998). Establishes a plausible link, through the East family, between MW and Jane Austen
ââRobert Woof, and Stephen Hebron,
Hyenas in Petticoats
(Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, 1997). Bicentenary exhibition of the lives of MW and MWS
Tyson, Gerald P.,
Joseph Johnson: A Liberal Publisher
(Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1979)
Uglow, Jenny,
The Lunar Men
(London: Faber, 2002)
Vaccà Giusti, Laura,
Andrea Vaccà e la sua famiglia: Biografie e memorie
(Pisa, 1878)
Verlet, Pierre,
French Royal Furniture
(London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1963)
Vickery, Amanda,
The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England
(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998), esp. 153â4 on the production and distribution of medicine
Vidal, Gore,
Burr: A Novel
(New York: Ballantine, 1973). Western Separatism involving GI's associate General Wilkinson and WG's friend Aaron Burr
Walkowitz, Judith R.,
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London
(London: Virago, 1992), ch. 5 (on the Men and Women's Club for redefining the natures of the sexes)
Wardle, Ralph M., âMary Wollstonecraft,
Analytical
Reviewer',
PMLA
, lxii (Dec. 1947)
ââ
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Critical Biography
(1951; repr. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1966)
Waters, Mary A. “The First of a New Genus”: Mary Wollstonecraft as a Literary Critic and Mentor to Mary Hays',
Eighteenth-Century Studies
, xxxvii (spring 2004), 415â34