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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.
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 ...
Jan 10, 2022 · "Imlay, Gilbert," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1891) Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1928, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
Gilbert Imlay, the Reign of Terror, and her first child Having just written the Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft was determined to put her ideas to the test, and in the stimulating intellectual atmosphere of the French Revolution, she attempted her most experimental romantic attachment yet: she met and fell passionately in love with Gilbert ...
Apr 16, 2008 · In December 1792, she travelled to France where she met Gilbert Imlay, an American merchant and author of A Topographical Descriptions of the Western Territory of North America (1792) and The Emigrants (1793). As British subjects were increasingly at risk under the Terror, Wollstonecraft passed as Imlay's wife so as to benefit from the security ...
spectacularly failed to meet the financial obligations involved.10. Evidently, the opportunity suddenly arose to invest his capital in a more. lucrative and less risky venture than the land-jobbing business. That venture was the triangular trade, and the man who introduced Imlay to it was Revolutionary War hero Talbot.
