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Nov 3, 2021 · xiii, 299 pages : 24 cm "This is the first book-length biography of the American Gilbert Imlay (c. 1754-c. 1828), Revolutionary War veteran, land-jobber, travel-writer, novelist, entrepreneur, agent provocateur - and infamous lover of Mary Wollstonecraft.
Sep 30, 2015 · A biography of the American Gilbert Imlay (c 1754 - c 1828), revolutionary war veteran - and infamous lover of Mary Wollstonecraft. It also highlights how Imlay unwittingly acted as an intermediary between figures of greater significance, whose ideas, ambitions and schemes he frequently borrowed and disseminated across the Atlantic and continents.
A biography of the American Gilbert Imlay (c 1754 - c 1828), revolutionary war veteran - and infamous lover of Mary Wollstonecraft. It also highlights how Imlay unwittingly acted as an intermediary between figures of greater significance, whose ideas, ambitions and schemes he frequently borrowed and disseminated across the Atlantic and continents.
Dec 2, 2020 · 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. Imlay’s The Emigrants revolves around the ...
The American Gilbert Imlay (c. 1754– c. 1828) was a man of many talents and trades.Described by one commentator as ‘unscrupulous, independent, courageous, a dodger of debts to the poor, a deserter, a protector of the helpless, a revolutionist, a man of enlightenment beyond his age, a greedy and treacherous land booster’, Gilbert Imlay was all of these and more.
Gilbert Imlay was an American author, and diplomat. Beisides, he was known in his day as a shrewd but unscrupulous businessman involved in land speculation in Kentucky. During the French Revolution, he was a diplomatic representative of the United States to France, while at the same time pursuing his own business interests by running the British blockade of French ports.
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
