The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~33,500 words · 159 passages
Cite this work
- APAMary Wollstonecraft. (n.d.). The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/mary-wollstonecraft/the-love-letters-of-mary-wollstonecraft-to-gilbert-imlay
- MLAMary Wollstonecraft. "The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/mary-wollstonecraft/the-love-letters-of-mary-wollstonecraft-to-gilbert-imlay.
- ChicagoMary Wollstonecraft. The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/mary-wollstonecraft/the-love-letters-of-mary-wollstonecraft-to-gilbert-imlay.
What it is about
The letters to Gilbert Imlay, published posthumously by Godwin.
Context and history
They document the relationship that took her to France, gave her a daughter and led to two suicide attempts. Godwin published them convinced they did her honour; the public of 1798 read them the other way, and Wollstonecraft's reputation stayed buried for the best part of a century.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) The Love Letters OF Mary Wollstonecraft TO GILBERT IMLAY WITH A PREFATORY MEMOIR By Roger Ingpen _ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS_ Philadelphia J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY London: HUTCHINSON & CO. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT'S LETTERS EDITED BY ROGER INGPEN LEIGH HUNT'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Illustrated Edition. 2 Vols. A. CONSTABLE & CO. ONE THOUSAND POEMS FOR CHILDREN: A Collection of Verse Old and New. HUTCHINSON & CO. FORSTER'S LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. _Abridged._ (Standard Biographies.) HUTCHINSON & CO. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. _Abridged._ (Standard Biographies.) HUTCHINSON & CO. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. Complete. Illustrated Edition. 2 Vols. PITMAN. PREFACE I Of Mary Wollstonecraft's ancestors little is known, except that they were of Irish descent. Her father, Edward John Wollstonecraft, was the son of a prosperous Spitalfields manufacturer of Irish birth, from whom he inherited the sum of ten thousand pounds. He married towards the middle of the eighteenth century Elizabeth Dixon, the daughter of a gentleman in good position, of Ballyshannon, by whom he had six children: Edward, Mary, Everina, Eliza, James, and Charles. Mary, the eldest daughter and second child, was born on April 27, 1759, the birth year of Burns and Schiller, and the last year of George II.'s reign. She passed her childhood, until she was five years old, in the neighbourhood of Epping Forest, but it is doubtful whether she was born there or at Hoxton. Mr. Wollstonecraft followed no profession in particular, although from time to time he dabbled in a variety of pursuits when seized with a desire to make money. He is described as of idle, dissipated habits, and possessed of an ungovernable temper and a restless spirit that urged him to perpetual changes of residence. From Ho
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