Mary Ellmann (née Donoghue) (1921–1989) was an American writer and literary critic. Magazines she reviewed included The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Encounter, The Atlantic Monthly, Commentary, The New Republic, the New Statesman and The American Scholar.
Ellmann is particularly noted for her book of essays, Thinking About Women (1968),[1] which discusses the evolution of the representation of femininity in British and American literature, exhibiting sexual analogies and stereotypes from the texts and contrasting criticism by male and female authors.[2] The literary historian Mary Eagleton cited Ellmann's book as one of two "significant texts" in early feminist theory.[3] The work has been widely cited for its introduction of the concept "phallic criticism" as applied to writers of both sexes.[4] In a review of academic studies of gender, Mary Poovey described Thinking About Women as an example of the "earliest U.S. incarnation" of feminist literary criticism, which, "with the excitement of pioneers discovering virgin territory... helped make writing about women academically acceptable."[5]
Ellmann was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. She attended the University of Massachusetts and Yale University, and married the literary critic Richard Ellmann in 1949. The couple had three children, Stephen, Maud, and Lucy.[2]
^Ellmann, Mary. Thinking about women. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. 1968.
MaryEllmann (née Donoghue) (1921–1989) was an American writer and literary critic. Magazines she reviewed included The New York Review of Books, The Nation...
Richard David Ellmann, FBA (March 15, 1918 – May 13, 1987) was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde...
literary critic Richard Ellmann and of the feminist literary critic MaryEllmann. She is the sister of the critic Maud Ellmann. She is married to the American...
footballer MaryEllmann (1921–1989), American writer and literary critic Richard Ellmann (1918–1987), American literary critic and biographer Kevin Ellmann (born...
p. 19. Costello 1992, p. 53. Ellmann 1982, p. 21. Ellmann 1982, p. 30. Costello 1992, p. 81. Bowker 2012, p. 19; Ellmann 1982, p. 23. Jackson & Costello...
Oscar Wilde. (1881) p. 37. Ellmann 1988, p. 18. Ellmann 1988, p. 20. Ellmann 1988, p. 22. Ellmann 1988, pp. 22–23. Ellmann 1988, p. 26. The Strange Secret...
biographies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft. Tomalin was born Claire Delavenay on 20 June 1933 in London...
supergorgeous Mantovanian Motown Sound", while mocking Marshall McLuhan and MaryEllmann. One of DeMott's last pieces was a scalding dissection of the 9/11 Commission...
Retrieved 5 August 2021 Ellmann, p. 425 "Former Overstone Rector's Daughter", Northampton Mercury, 18 August 1933, p. 9 Ellmann, p. 459 Joyce, p. 411 Joyce...
disconcerting illogicality which characterises Earnest's dialogue". Richard Ellmann argues Wilde had reached his artistic maturity and wrote more surely and...
Carde (eds). Encyclopedia of Insects. Academic Press. 2003. p 1115. Lucy Ellmann, "Fat and feminist issues", The Independent, 18 February 1996 Thomas Sutcliffe...
James Joyce Foundation Scholars of Anthony Burgess Frank Delaney Richard Ellmann Alan Warren Friedman Francisco García Tortosa Stuart Gilbert Adaline Glasheen...
"frozen embarrassment" at the premiere of Watch It Come Down, though Richard Ellmann, reviewing an early performance, noticed unintentional audience laughter...
Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce's Father, Fourth Estate Ltd, U.K. Ellmann, Richard, (1959) James Joyce. Oxford University Press, revised edition...
unkind word" yet his art could "fill the streets with rioters". Richard Ellmann, the biographer of Yeats and James Joyce, stated that Synge "built a fantastic...
Ducornet Elaine Dundy Andrea Dworkin, memoirs, feminist T. S. Eliot Lucy Ellmann Ruth Fainlight F. Scott Fitzgerald Janet Flanner John Gould Fletcher Charles...
not exclusively positive. In The Independent on Sunday, columnist Lucy Ellmann criticised both what she saw as the unchanging nature of the characters...
ed., An Oscar Wilde Chronology, p. 33. Retrieved 29 June 2020 Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, p. 251 "A Life of Concealment". Time Magazine. 27 September...
auction. A novel, Nora, by Nuala O'Connor, was published in 2021. In 2023, Mary Morrissy published Penelope Unbound, a novel which imagined a different outcome...
Alan Turing:The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. In January 2017, he portrayed Ellmann in the Netflix film iBoy. He played Henry Hunt in Mike Leigh's 2018 film...
English and Irish Social Life," The Gentlewoman, January 1883. Richard Ellmann (1988). Oscar Wilde. Vintage Books. pp. 14–15. Gerard Hanberry, More Lives...
originally found in Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Penguin Books, 1987, p.198 Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Penguin Books, 1987, p.199 Ellmann, Richard. Oscar...
Global Information