Author: Mary WollstonecraftPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
Author: Mary WollstonecraftLetters to Imlay
Author: Mary WollstonecraftPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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The Clairmont Correspondence: 1808-1834
Author: Claire ClairmontPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"You write the most amusing and clever letters in the world... If your letters are ever published, all others that ever were published before will fall in the shade, and you will be looked on as the best letter writer that ever charmed their friends."--Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont, 29 November 1842 Claire Clairmont embodied English romanticism in her life, her journals, and especially in her letters. As step-daughter of William Godwin, as companion to Shelley and Mary on their elopement, as Shelley's "Constantia," as mother of Byron's Allegra, as a regular member of the Shelley circle (close to Peacock, Leigh Hunt, Hogg, Lady Mount Cashell, and Trelawny), as governess in Russia during the Decembrist Revolution, as confidante of Mary Shelley and Jane Williams in their middle years, and, in her old age, as the inspiration of Henry James's The Aspern Papers, she both lived and recorded the Romantic Revolution. Brought up in the same household as Mary Shelley, dedicated to the principles of Mary Wollstonecraft, Claire was a more enthusiastic feminist than Mary, and her letters on this theme are always arresting, often hilarious. She wrote on the perils of marriage, on the advantages of illegitimacy, and on the forces that press a woman of no fortune into dependency. She resisted these forces, maintaining her independence in the only career open to her--governess and companion--while dreaming of a "society of free women." This edition presents the texts of all known surviving letters by Claire Clairmont along with those of her brother Charles Clairmont and her stepsister Fanny Imlay Godwin--229 letters in all, of which 183 are published here for the first time complete. ClaireClairmont's letters, numbering 190, date from 1815, when she was seventeen, to two months before her death in 1879. Charles Clairmont's 32 letters begin with schoolboy notes to Godwin in 1808, when he was thirteen, and conclude in 1849, two months before his death. Fanny Godwin's seven are all from 1816, the year of her suicide at the age of twenty-two. The volumes also include a chronological chart, genealogical tables, appendices, and twenty-eight illustrations. "The role Claire Clairmont played in the lives of Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Byron gives exceptional importance to her letters. Claire Clairmont was an intelligent, discerning--at times self-centered and, towards the latter part of her life, quirky--observer of the life around her. In the letters exchanged between Claire Clairmont and Mary Shelley, as well as in her many letters to Byron and Trelawny, one gathers invaluable first-hand insights into the lives of the extraordinary circle of younger romantics and their era."--Betty T. Bennett, American University
Mary Wollstonecraft. Letters to Imlay, with prefatory memoir by C.K. Paul
Author: Mary WollstonecraftThe Love Letters to Gilbert Imlay
Author: Mary WollstonecraftPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732663167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Love Letters to Gilbert Imlay by Mary Wollstonecraft
Her Own Woman
Author: Diane JacobsPublisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806524467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Pioneering eighteenth-century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft lived a life as radical as her vision of a fairer world. She overcame great disadvantages - poverty (her abusive, sybaritic father squandered the family fortune), a frivolous education, and the stigma of being unmarried in a man's world. Her life changed when Thomas Paine's publisher, Joseph Johnson, determined to make her a writer. Wollstonecraft lived as fully as a man would, socializing with the great painters, poets, and revolutionaries of her era. She traveled to Paris during the French Revolution; fell in love with Gilbert Imlay, a fickle American; and, unmarried, openly bore their daughter, Fanny. This biography of Mary Wollstonecraft gives a balanced view. Diane Jacobs also continues Wollstonecraft's story by concluding with those of her daughters.
Romantic Correspondence
Author: Mary A. FavretPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521604284
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This study of correspondence in the Romantic period calls into question the common notion that letters are a particularly 'romantic', personal, and ultimately feminine form of writing.
Love in the Time of Revolution
Author: Andrew CaytonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469607514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
In 1798, English essayist and novelist William Godwin ignited a transatlantic scandal with Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." Most controversial were the details of the romantic liaisons of Godwin's wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, with both American Gilbert Imlay and Godwin himself. Wollstonecraft's life and writings became central to a continuing discussion about love's place in human society. Literary radicals argued that the cultivation of intense friendship could lead to the renovation of social and political institutions, whereas others maintained that these freethinkers were indulging their own desires with a disregard for stability and higher authority. Through correspondence and novels, Andrew Cayton finds an ideal lens to view authors, characters, and readers all debating love's power to alter men and women in the world around them. Cayton argues for Wollstonecraft's and Godwin's enduring influence on fiction published in Great Britain and the United States and explores Mary Godwin Shelley's endeavors to sustain her mother's faith in romantic love as an engine of social change.
The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft
Author: Mary WollstonecraftPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231131421
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
This is the only single-volume edition containing all Wollstonecraft's known correspondence.
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft