Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Paperback / softback
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Edited by Tone (Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo) Brekke, Jon (Professor of Romanticism Studies, University of Warwick) Mee
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
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'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.'William Godwin, the author's future husband, was not alone in admiring Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime.
Not easy to categorize, it is both an arresting travel book and a moving exploration of her personal and political selves.
Wollstonecraft set out for Scandinavia just two weeks after her first suicide attempt, on a mission from the lover whose affections she doubted, to recover his silver on a ship that had gone missing.
With her baby daughter and a nursemaid, she travelled across the dramatic landscape and wrote sublime descriptions of the natural world, and the events and people she encountered.
What emerges most vividly is Wollstonecraft's courage and ability to look beyond her own suffering to the turmoil around her in revolutionary Europe, and a better future. This edition includes further material on the silver ship, Wollstonecraft's personal letters to Imlay during her trip, an extract from Godwin's memoir, and a selection of contemporary reviews.
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- Publication Date:12/03/2009
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, one map
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:12/03/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199230631
