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Long regarded as Mary Wollstonecraft's most delightful work, this series of twenty-five letters is quite possibly the perfect fusion of their famous author's personal and intellectual selves. The letters were written to her lover, Gilbert Imlay, who had sent her to the Scan-dinavian countries as his business envoy dur-ing the summer of 1795. She was accompanied by her year-old daughter and a nursemaid on part of the journey, but frequently took side trips on her own.
Informed by a wealth of ideas and years of wide reading, the letters combine landscape description, sociological observation, poetic reverie, and personal apostrophe. Never ceasing to observe the members of her own sex, Wollstonecraft is concerned with the plight of Scandinavian women, and expresses her views on child care. The modern reader will be struck by the contemporaneity of her comments on prison reform, capital punishment, property, and government.
This first modern edition of the Letters has been lightly edited, increasing its readability while preserving the flavor of the original. It includes the author's original notes, editorial notes, an introduction, and a selected bibliography, as well as a map of the journey.
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Carol H. Poston’s critical edition of Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was published in 1976.
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Letters Written during a Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good -. B/W Drawings (illustrator). First Thus. SUBTITLED : ` Written during a short Residence in Sweden Norway and Denmark '. Caril H. Poston acted as editor on this 201 page volume. She also introduces (21 pages) the book. Read more about : Christiania, uncouth and savage, Fredericstadt, Neuilly, solitariness, hospitality, and Quistram. The work was first published in 1796. B/W drawings are decorative and seemingly UNattributed. Cond : Paper wrapper is off-white with brown lettering. Front cover artwork shows 5 people on a pleasure outing in a boat. Clean, tight, and bright. Mimimal wear. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 73) : " The fishermen were calmly casting their nets; whilst the seagulls hovered over the unruffled deep. Every thing seemed to harmonize into tranquility - even the mournful call of the bittern was in cadence with the tinkling bells on the necks of ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 011305
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