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Gilbert Imlay (February 9, 1754 – November 20, 1828) was an American businessman, author, and diplomat. He served in the U.S. embassy to France and became one of the earliest American writers, producing two books, the influential A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America , and a novel, The Emigrants , both of which ...
May 16, 2016 · Gilbert Imlay already had a bad reputation before his biographer discovered he was a slave trader. Mary Wollstonecraft. By John Opie, 1797, via Wikimedia Commons. By: Matthew Wills. May 16, 2016. 2 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR.
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May 22, 2008 · According to Verhoeven, the Imlaystown section of Upper Freehold was named in the 1780s after the first Imlay (Patrick or Peter) to settle in New Jersey. The town was probably founded in 1690. Gilbert Imlay was a fourth-generation descendant of Patrick Imlay. The Imlay mansion in Imlaystown was acquired by Patrick’s son, Peter, in 1727 and ...
Dec 2, 2020 · Such investigation tends to confirm the idea that it was the American Gilbert Imlay who died at St. Brelade. 15. Noted by Rusk in correction of Townsend, who had wrongly supposed the name of Gilbert's grandmother was Mary, and that, “dying in 1754, she had referred to him in her will.”. 16.
Gilbert Imlay. Gilbert Imlay, ? 1754 - 1828, American speculator and diplomat. Imlay, an army officer during the American War for Independence, settled for a time in Kentucky, writing from his experiences on the then-frontier a valuable Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America , published in London in 1792. He appears ...
Wil Verhoeven's comprehensive new biography seeks to expand our knowledge of Gilbert Imlay, best known as the faithless lover of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of their daughter Fanny. Wollstonecraft, who was driven to attempt suicide by his indifference and infidelity, undertook her famous trip to Scandinavia in an attempt to rescue her lover ...
The Courtship Novel, 1740-1820: A Feminized Genre. University Press of Kentucky. Gilbert Imlay, her former lover, signed an official document commissioning MW to travel to Sweden, Norway, and Denmark to trace an illicit cargo on which he was owed money. Wollstonecraft, Mary.
