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Letters on Sweden, Norway and Denmark Kindle Edition

by Mary Wollstonecraft (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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When she came back she found Fanny’s poor parents anxious to go back to Ireland; and as she had been often told that she could earn by writing, she wrote a pamphlet of 162 small pages—”Thoughts on the Education of Daughters”—and got ten pounds for it. This she gave to her friend’s parents to enable them to go back to their kindred. In all she did there is clear evidence of an ardent, generous, impulsive nature. One day her friend Fanny Blood had repined at the unhappy surroundings in the home she was maintaining for her father and mother, and longed for a little home of her own to do her work in. The claims made in this little book were in advance of the opinion of that day, but they are claims that have in our day been conceded. They are certainly not revolutionary in the opinion of the world that has become a hundred years older since the book was written. The interest of this book which describes her travel is quickened by a knowledge of the heart-sorrow that underlies it all. Gilbert Imlay had promised to meet her upon her return, and go with her to Switzerland. But the letters she had from him in Sweden and Norway were cold, and she came back to find that she was wholly forsaken for an actress from a strolling company of players. Then she went up the river to drown herself. She paced the road at Putney on an October night, in 1795, in heavy rain, until her clothes were drenched, that she might sink more surely, and then threw herself from the top of Putney Bridge. H. M
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    Library of Alexandria
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    December 27, 2012
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00B0XL75S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Library of Alexandria (December 27, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 27, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 812 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 109 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 45 ratings

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Odd Geir
5.0 out of 5 stars A gem, no less
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2012
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After having read the brilliant "Life and death of Mary Wollstonecraft", this collection of charming letters is, to me, really mind blowing. I live in Norway, I own a summer place in the area she is describing - all the places she visits are familiar to me, and every summer we go by boat to Strömstad where she boarded a boat to go to Larvik across the Oslo fjord.
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Mary B Donovan
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2018
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Great but neglected writer--thanks for her daughter as well.
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Barney Mills
1.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected as a tourist going to Norway looking for things to do and see.
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2014
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Don't buy it for Norway trip information. Go to Stockholm and stay put. Beautiful city plus beautiful young gals that outdo Newport Beach hands down!
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David Roberts
4.0 out of 5 stars Profound, but often sounds like Margaret Thatcher
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 13, 2022
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There are some incredibly striking passages, this was written in between her two suicide atempts, and some passages carry that deep mystical hyper-reality of the world seen through eyes that are moving in spaces that bring them to a vision of the world seen with the eyes of death - an incredible awareness of the blazing splendour of life, and it's transient and precarious nature. There is a peculiar light in several of the passages. In other passages, its just like listening to Margaret Thatcher complaining about the lack of moral fibre in the working classes, who ought to be disciplined, and educated more severely. Perhaps the combination of Mary wollstonecraft the libertarian and her deep moral conservatism lead to this devastating self judgement and the desire to kill herself. It's comforting to know that she found someone, in William Godwin, who didn't judge her by the constrained moral outlook of their time, but as a person who had known the true ability to love, and also to lead an true independent, self-directed life without the privileges of being in the wealthy upper classes.
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Vaibhav Sunder
4.0 out of 5 stars Good to read
Reviewed in India on March 10, 2019
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At times it gets very very interesting, there are some cool facts pertaining to those times and places
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Alessio
3.0 out of 5 stars Interessante
Reviewed in Italy on May 11, 2013
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Di certo non entusiasmante. Descrizioni e digressioni sulle società del tempo e sugli ambienti naturali davvero interessanti, nonché un testo che forse ci fa conoscere l'autrice come pochi altri suoi libri lasciano trasparire. Nella mia opinione rimane comunque, fra i suoi libri, il migliore.
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Susan CAA
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 21, 2014
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good informative item, arrived promptly.
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