The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay - Couverture rigide

Mary Wollstonecraft

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798259517912

Editeur : Clearview Editions, 2026

Synopsis

The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay by Mary Wollstonecraft, originally published 1908. This 1908 collection gathered letters written during Wollstonecraft's turbulent relationship with Imlay in the revolutionary 1790s. These private appeals repay reading because they expose, with painful immediacy, the conflict between Wollstonecraft's intellectual independence and her longing for an increasingly absent lover. The letters preserve an unusually intimate record of a major feminist thinker confronting desire, abandonment, motherhood, and self-command.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), the foundational text of English-language feminist philosophy, arguing for women's education and rational equality a full century before the movements that would claim her as an ancestor. She is also, inescapably, the mother of Mary Shelley, who never knew her: Wollstonecraft died of complications eleven days after giving birth to the future author of Frankenstein, a fact that has shaped how both women are read against each other ever since. The Love Letters to Gilbert Imlay are a different kind of document from the Vindication, and a genuinely unusual one for a library to shelve: not argument but raw correspondence, written to the American businessman with whom Wollstonecraft had a daughter, Fanny, out of wedlock, and who abandoned her. The letters record two suicide attempts and a passion the famously rational philosopher of the Vindication does not fully control - when her widower, William Godwin, published them in 1798 alongside his candid Memoirs of her life, the revelation of an affair, an illegitimate child, and attempted suicide scandalized readers and damaged her reputation for nearly a century, delaying serious feminist engagement with her philosophical work. For today's readers, that gap between the public philosopher and the private letters is exactly the appeal: this is primary-source evidence of the emotional life behind the Vindication's cool argument, written by one of the era's sharpest minds at her least composed and most human. Patrons interested in women's history, Romantic-era letters, or the private lives behind canonical texts will find nothing else quite like it on the shelf. This Clearview Editions large-print printing - 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, ragged-right, undivided words - brings Wollstonecraft's most intimate writing to readers who have so far only had access to her ideas in standard type.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Clearview Editions
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798259517912
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 326
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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