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Part travel book, part memoir, this was Mary Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime. Includes introduction and appendices which contextualise the letters in terms of Wollstonecraft's work, life and influence.
Synopsis
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) is both an arresting travel book and a personal memoir. In it Wollstonecraft describes the sublime landscape and the events and people she encounters. This edition includes reviews, additional letters, and documents on the background to the journey.