The cover page is adapted from Mary Wollstonecraft, a painting completed circa 1797 by John Opie. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Opiewww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Chapitres (26)
- Introduction 0:00
- Letter I 14:22
- Letter II 36:12
- Letter III 45:44
- Letter IV 57:58
- Letter V 1:04:37
- Letter VI 1:31:22
- Letter VII 1:43:01
- Letter VIII 2:05:02
- Letter IX 2:23:50
- Letter X 2:36:41
- Letter XI 2:52:35
- Letter XII 3:04:26
- Letter XIII 3:10:23
- Letter XIV 3:32:56
- Letter XV 3:41:01
- Letter XVI 3:48:52
- Letter XVII 4:01:25
- Letter XVIII: Copenhagen 4:11:06
- Letter XIX 4:22:45
- Letter XX 4:37:03
- Letter XXI 4:48:02
- Letter XXII 4:53:22
- Letter XXIII 5:13:54
- Letter XXIV 5:23:13
- Letter XXV 5:28:28
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In June 1795, Mary Wollstonecraft embarked on a three-month trip around Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, on undisclosed business at the request of her lover Gilbert Imlay. During the course of this voyage she wrote twenty-five letters to him, which were compiled the following year at the behest of her publisher into this volume. As a travelogue, the letters of course contain descriptions of the natural beauty of the places she visited and the habits and interests of the people she met; but what is more apparent is Mary’s growing realization that this journey she has undertaken for Imlay ultimately won’t heal their relationship.
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark was the last work of Mary Wollstonecraft’s published during her lifetime; she died two years later, shortly after the birth of her second child, Mary Shelley. It follows the themes of her earlier works: a belief in reason’s ability to elevate people, the injustice of society’s oppression of women, and a spreading idea that commercialism does more to deprave than to enlighten humankind.