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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 · It turns out the man who loved and left Wollstonecraft was a con man of epic proportions with a particularly ugly secret. In Wollstonecraft biographies, Gilbert Imlay is the American adventurer who abandoned her after fathering her child. And that’s usually where’s he left.
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Gilbert Imlay (February 9, 1754 – November 20, 1828) was an American businessman, author, and diplomat.
May 22, 2008 · Gilbert Imlay was a fourth-generation descendant of Patrick Imlay. The Imlay mansion in Imlaystown was acquired by Patrick’s son, Peter, in 1727 and remained in the family until sold to the...
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 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.
Publish with us. Policies and ethics. Mary Wollstonecraft never crossed the Atlantic. Her youngest brother, Charles, emigrated to America, while another brother, James, took French citizenship. Mary herself became a United States citizen through her American lover, ‘Captain’ Gilbert Imlay,...