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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 · In Wollstonecraft biographies, Gilbert Imlay is the American adventurer who abandoned her after fathering her child. And that’s usually where’s he left. But who exactly was this cad and what did Wollstonecraft see in him?
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Gilbert Imlay 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 .
Gilbert Imlay's life took shape in the unfolding of two dominant historical narratives. One is a story of war and conflict, played out on a regional, national and transnational stage; the other, a story of dissent and diaspora, written into a family of emigrants and settlers.
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark ( 1796) is a personal travel narrative by the eighteenth-century British feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. The twenty-five letters cover a wide range of topics, from sociological reflections on Scandinavia and its peoples to philosophical questions regarding identity.
After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38 leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts.
Dec 2, 2020 · The passage indicates not only that Mary Wollstonecraft had met in her travels the French-American Crèvecceur, the Hector St. John of the Letters of an American Farmer (1782), but that Crèvecceur and Gilbert Imlay had an acquaintanceship not hitherto suspected.
