The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay

PREFACE

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Of Mary Wollstonecraft's ancestors little is known, except that they were
of Irish descent. Her father, Edward John Wollstonecraft, was the son of a
prosperous Spitalfields manufacturer of Irish birth, from whom he
inherited the sum of ten thousand pounds. He married towards the middle of
the eighteenth century Elizabeth Dixon, the daught...