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Hace 4 días · After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38 leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts.
Hace 1 día · On the morning of 10 October, Fanny Imlay was found dead in a room at a Swansea inn, along with a suicide note and a laudanum bottle. On 10 December, Percy Shelley's wife, Harriet, was discovered drowned in the Serpentine, a lake in Hyde Park, London. Both suicides were hushed up.
14 de may. de 2024 · In August 1793 Wollstonecraft registered at the American Embassy in Paris as the wife of Gilbert Imlay (1754?-1828?) of New Jersey and Kentucky. She had met him in Revolutionary Paris and the two were lovers but did not marry. Their daughter, Franșoise (Fanny) Imlay (1794-1816), was born in May.
5 de may. de 2024 · As a result of her relationship with the American land speculator Gilbert Imlay, Wollstonecraft gave birth to a daughter, Fanny Imlay, in 1794. She refers to Fanny throughout these letters as "the creature." Mary Wollstonecraft: Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787)
20 de may. de 2024 · Despite her wishes, Wollstonecraft officially left France in 1795 due to Imlay’s refusal to join her and Wollstonecraft’s denial to bestow illegitimacy on Fanny. They arrived in London, but Imlay rejected her, leading to the author committing an attempt on her life. Travel Narrative and Return to London Society
5 de may. de 2024 · When Mary Wollstonecraft married William Godwin, she already had a 3-year-old daughter named Fanny Imlay, the product of a turbulent and decidedly unmarried relationship with American adventurer Gilbert Imlay.
Hace 4 días · Percy Bysshe Shelley (/ b ɪ ʃ / ⓘ BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was a British writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence ...
