This collection gathers the personal letters written by Mary Wollstonecraft — author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — to Gilbert Imlay, the American adventurer with whom she had a passionate and ultimately heartbreaking relationship in the 1790s. The letters offer an extraordinary window into Wollstonecraft’s emotional life, written with the same directness and intellectual intensity that characterise her political work.
As primary documents of Romantic-era feeling and as the private testimony of one of history’s most important feminist thinkers, these letters are essential reading. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg for the complete correspondence.