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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 · The book berates Thomas Jefferson on the issue of slavery, and emphatically calls the practice “contrary to our bill of rights as well as repugnant to the code of nature.”. 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.”.
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 ...
Nov 3, 2021 · The book concerns an Imlay little known to those working in Romantic studies, so includes a reconstruction of Imlay's early life in New Jersey; an account of his activities as a land speculator; the intriguing relations he had with a spate of historical characters; and his involvement with the Girondist government's plans to launch a revolt in ...
The unfinished novel ( Maria or the Wrongs of Woman) has a distinctly autobiographical flavour, though when Imlay and Mary became lovers she was not married, and was on record as saying that, in marriage, women’s bodies are ‘often legally prostituted’. Before he finally abandoned her to make her own suicide attempt, Imlay apparently ...
- Stuart Andrews
- 1998
Apr 14, 2010 · Imlay, Gilbert, 1754?-1828?; Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner; National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) Call number 8689166 Camera Canon 5D External-identifier urn:oclc:record:1048806502 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier lovelettersofmar00woll
Gilbert Imlay’s The Emigrants (1793) Here you may appropriate your talents for the benet of mankind, and not waste them in idle speculation—here you will nd a new creation bursting from the shades of wildness into a populous state;—and here is the country were the foundation must be laid for the renovation of those privileges, which have
