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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.
In the Athenœum article he gives the epitaph, which has since disappeared according to Professor Rusk's informant, as “Here was intered (sic) the perishable remains of Gilbert Imlay, Esq.; who was born Feb. 8, 1758, and expired on the 20 Novr., 1828.” The parish register statement, as reproduced by Professor Rusk, leads: “M. Gilbert ...
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 ...
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. Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38 leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts.
Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothic novel revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband.