Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark - Softcover

Wollstonecraft, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500806668 ISBN 13: 9781500806668

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

‘Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark’ (1796) is a personal travel narrative by the eighteenth-century British feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. The twenty-five letters cover a wide range of topics, from sociological reflections on Scandinavia and its peoples to philosophical questions regarding identity. Published by Wollstonecraft's career-long publisher, Joseph Johnson, it was the last work issued during her lifetime. Wollstonecraft undertook her tour of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark in order to retrieve a stolen treasure ship for her lover, Gilbert Imlay. Believing that the journey would restore their strained relationship, she eagerly set off. However, over the course of the three months she spent in Scandinavia, she realized that Imlay had no intention of renewing the relationship. The letters, which constitute the text, drawn from her journal and from missives she sent to Imlay, reflect her anger and melancholy over his repeated betrayals. ‘Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark’ is therefore both a travel narrative and an autobiographical memoir.

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About the Author:

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500806668
• ISBN 13: 9781500806668
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130
• Editor: Jonson Will