ABSTRACT
Mary Wollstonecraft's contributions to the Analytical Review between 1788 and 1797 represent a small but significant part of her total writing achievement. Despite her high regard for Jean-Jacques Rousseau's talents as a writer, Wollstonecraft is equally emphatic about what she feels are his shortcomings. Wollstonecraft's criticism of Rousseau as a writer who skillfully manipulates the passions indeed frequently conflicts with her view of him as a "genius" who "speaks to the heart." Few clues are provided by early sources to help identify Wollstonecraft's contributions to the Analytical Joseph Johnson, the magazine's publisher, writes only that she "wrote many articles in the Analytical." Eleanor Flexner's doubt that Wollstonecraft would have signed her own initials in the Analytical "since no other contributor signed his own" disregards the fiercely independent aspect of Wollstonecraft's character. It is very likely that other unsigned reviews in the Analytical are Wollstonecraft's, but further evidence is needed for scholars accurately to identify them.
