Le lettere d'amore di Mary Wollstonecraft a Gilbert Imlay

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Complete work

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http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) The Love Letters OF Mary Wollstonecraft TO GILBERT IMLAY WITH A PREFATORY MEMOIR By Roger Ingpen _ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS_ Philadelphia J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY London: HUTCHINSON & CO. 1908 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT'S LETTERS EDITED BY ROGER INGPEN LEIGH HUNT'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Illustrated Edition. 2 Vols. A. CONSTABLE & CO. ONE THOUSAND POEMS FOR CHILDREN: A Collection of Verse Old and New. HUTCHINSON & CO. FORSTER'S LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. _Abridged._ (Standard Biographies.) HUTCHINSON & CO. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. _Abridged._ (Standard Biographies.) HUTCHINSON & CO. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. Complete. Illustrated Edition. 2 Vols. PITMAN. PREFACE I Of Mary Wollstonecraft's ancestors little is known, except that they were of Irish descent. Her father, Edward John Wollstonecraft, was the son of a prosperous Spitalfields manufacturer of Irish birth, from whom he inherited the sum of ten thousand pounds. He married towards the middle of the eighteenth century Elizabeth Dixon, the daughter of a gentleman in good position, of Ballyshannon, by whom he had six children: Edward, Mary, Everina, Eliza, James, and Charles. Mary, the eldest daughter and second child, was born on April 27, 1759, the birth year of Burns and Schiller, the eighteenth century Elizabeth Dixon, the daughter of a gentleman in good position, of Ballyshannon, by whom he had six children: Edward, Mary, Everina, Eliza, James, and Charles. Mary, the eldest daughter and second child, was born on April 27, 1759, the birth year of Burns and Schiller, and the last year of George II.'s reign. She passed her childhood, until she was five years old, in the neighbourhood of Epping Forest, but it is doubtful whether she was born there or at Hoxton. Mr. Wollstonecraft followed no prof

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