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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.
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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'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.
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 .
Jan 10, 2022 · IMLAY, Gilbert, author, b. in New Jersey about 1750. He was a captain in the American army during the Revolutionary war, and after its termination emigrated to Kentucky, where he was appointed a deputy surveyor under George May, at Louisville.
Gilbert Imlay’s The Emigrants—published in 1793, four years after the ratification of the US constitution—illustrates that there indeed is a peril inherent in the discursive link between utopia and the United States, already detectable while the nation was still in the process of formation.
