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- Imlay eventually returned to London, leaving Wollstonecraft and her daughter alone in Paris.
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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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Imlay eventually returned to London, leaving Wollstonecraft and her daughter alone in Paris. In time she rejoined him in England, carried her infant daughter to Scandinavia in search of a ship load of French silver on Imlay's behalf, and returned to London, only to discover that Imlay was living with an actress.
When Mary returned in October, an ugly scene effectively ended their relationship. Badly treated as she was by Imlay, Mary Wollstonecraft seems in her last year to have been attempting to exorcise him from her life.
After Wollstonecraft's death in 1797, Godwin published her original letters to Imlay (destroying the originals in the process). He deleted all references to contemporary political events and her business negotiations, emphasizing the romantic connection between the two sets of letters.
Imlay seems to have remained in London, and at one point moved to the Isle of Jersey, where he died in 1828. While on the topic of Wollstonecraft, a note on the authorship debate
- Verena Adamik
- 2020
Not long after hostilities between Britain and its American colonies ended, Imlay set out across the Allegheny Mountains to try his luck in the Ohio Valley, probably in the early spring of 1783. As a deputy sur- veyor for Jefferson County, Imlay was soon deeply invested in the Kentucky land bubble, rubbing shoulders with prominent historical.
Aside from some scattered records of financial disputes with merchants in London court archives, very few traces of Imlay's activities or whereabouts have come to light after he separated from Mary Wollstonecraft – although there is a record of his death and burial on the Isle of Jersey, discovered in 1903, and the text of an epitaph which ...
