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By the time An Historical and Moral View of the … French Revolution was published Wollstonecraft’s relationship with Imlay was disintegrating. She thought she had found with him a revolutionary domesticity and sexuality based on ‘mind’ and supporting her public identity and professional career. She could not believe that her revolution was over and continued to pursue the ideal and Imlay. Even her next book was a by-product of that pursuit.
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Per Nyström, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’s Scandinavian Journey’, Acts of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Gothenburg, Humaniora, no. 17 (1980); Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, as A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, with William Godwin, Memoirs of the ‘Author of The Rights of Woman’, ed. Richard Holmes (Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin Books, 1987)
See Charles L. Batten Jr, Pleasurable Instruction: Form and Convention in Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature (Berkeley, Cal.: University of California Press, 1978).
Mitzi Myers, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written... in Sweden: Toward Romantic Autobiography’, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 8 (1979) p. 166.
Mary Poovey, The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen (Chicago, Ill., and London: University of Chicago Press, 1984) p. 85.
John R. Gillis, For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1985) pp. 110–11.
Roy Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century (Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin Books, 1982) p. 311.
See Thomas Preston Peardon, The Transition in English Historical Writing, 1760–1830 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1933)
Gerald Newman, The Rise of English Nationalism: A Cultural History, 1740–1830 (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1987) p. 127.
Thomas Brown, The Wanderer in Norway, with other Poems, 2nd edn (London: J. Murray, 1816).
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Kelly, G. (1992). ‘A Solitary Wanderer’. In: Revolutionary Feminism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22063-2_7
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