SOURCE: Grogan, Claire. “Mary Wollstonecraft and Hannah More: Politics, Feminism and Modern Critics.” Lumen 13 (1994): 99-108.

In the following essay, Grogan disagrees with scholars who cite the numerous similarities in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft and More, claiming that such comparisons ignore the authors' differences in the area of gender politics.

Miss Berry's diary entry for Tuesday 2 April 1799 reads:

In the many hours I have spent alone this last week, I have been able … to go entirely through Hannah More, and Mrs Woolstonecroft [sic] immediately after her. It is amazing, or rather it is not amazing, but impossible, they should do otherwise than agree on all the great points of education.

Numerous modern critics use this diary entry to support their argument that little separates the feminist content in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Thoughts on the Education of Daughters [1787], A Vindication of the Rights of Woman [1792]) from that...