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  Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) (Paperback) By (author) Mary Wollstonecraft

  

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  Short Description for Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and DenmarkLetters 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.
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Published: 12 March 2009
  • Format: Paperback 240 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Diaries, Letters & Journals | Anthologies (non-poetry) | Literary Studies: General | Classic Travel Writing
  • ISBN 13: 9780199230631 ISBN 10: 0199230633
  • Sales rank: 118,654

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• 'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.' William Godwin, the author's future husband, was not alone in admiring Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime. Not easy to categorize, it is both an arresting travel book and a moving exploration of her personal and political selves. Wollstonecraft set out for Scandinavia just two weeks after her first suicide attempt, on a mission from the lover whose affections she doubted, to recover his silver on a ship that had gone missing. With her baby daughter and a nursemaid, she travelled across the dramatic landscape and wrote sublime descriptions of the natural world, and the events and people she encountered. What emerges most vividly is Wollstonecraft's courage and ability to look beyond her own suffering to the turmoil around her in revolutionary Europe, and a better future. This edition includes further material on the silver ship, Wollstonecraft's personal letters to Imlay during her trip, an extract from Godwin's memoir, and a selection of contemporary reviews.