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Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), Paperback / softback Book

Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) Paperback / softback

Edited by Ingrid Horrocks

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"The art of travelling is only a branch of the art of thinking," Mary Wollstonecraft wrote in one of her many reviews of works of travel writing.

A Short Residence is her own travel memoir. In a series of letters addressed to an unnamed lover, the work narrates Wollstonecraft's journey through Scandinavia in 1795, on much of which she was accompanied by her infant daughter.

Passionate and personal, A Short Residence is at once a moving epistolary travel narrative, a politically-motivated ethnographic tract, a work of scenic tourism, and a sentimental journey.

It is both as much a work of political thought as Wollstonecraft's better known treatises, and a brilliant, innovative, and influential work in the genre. This Broadview edition provides a helpful introduction and extensive appendices that contextualize this remarkable text in relation to key political and aesthetic debates.

It also includes a significant selection from Wollstonecraft's travel reviews.

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