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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 · This radical and abolitionist Gilbert Imlay is the man Wollstonecraft fell in love with and dreamed of living with “on a farm in the pristine American wilderness.” Inlay also wrote what is considered the first American frontier novel, The Emigrants (1793), with some assistance from Wollstonecraft.
Frances Imlay (14 May 1794 – 9 October 1816), also known as Fanny Godwin and Frances Wollstonecraft, was the illegitimate daughter of the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the American commercial speculator and diplomat Gilbert Imlay. Wollstonecraft wrote about her frequently in her later works.
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 .
After being abandoned by her lover and the father of her child, Gilbert Imlay (the model for Darnford), Wollstonecraft attempted to commit suicide. Her despair over these events is written into the book as well as many other experiences from the mid-1790s.
Wollstonecraft undertook her tour of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark in order to retrieve a stolen treasure ship for her lover, Gilbert Imlay. Believing that the journey would restore their strained relationship, she eagerly set off.
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Mary herself became a United States citizen through her American lover, ‘Captain’ Gilbert Imlay, who had fought in the War of Independence although his highest rank was almost certainly only Lieutenant.
