Mysterious Relationship Between Letter-Writer and Recipient in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Short Residence
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Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), the final publication during her lifetime, challenges conventional norms in women’s travel writing that relies heavily on the good reputation of the female traveler. By analyzing Wollstonecraft’s review of other women writers’ travel books, this article shows that she possessed a deep understanding of women’s travel writing genre as well as the issues of gender, power, and representation in their travel narratives. This article focuses on the fact that Wollstonecraft’s Short Residence, a collection of letters written to her lover, Imlay, features an enigmatic relationship between the writer and recipient. Though her private affair with Imlay was largely omitted in A Short Residence, the feeling of betrayal and abandonment sets the tone for the entirety of the travel letters. Wollstonecraft uses her failed relationship to express her deepest feelings of sorrow, depression, frustration, and oppression and paints her journey in northern countries as a movement toward freedom. The relationship between the letter-writer and its recipient was assumed to be a legally bound marriage at the time of publication; however, following Wollstonecraft’s death, the truth about her illicit relationship with Imlay was exposed, causing a decline in her reputation and the reputation of her letters. The article suggests that Wollstonecraft’s creation of mystery in the relationship is a deliberate effort to challenge the norms of the genre and question the moral standard by which the public judges the quality of works written by women.
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Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), the final publication during her lifetime, challenges conventional norms in women’s travel writing that relies heavily on the good reputation of the female traveler. By analyzing Wollstonecraft’s review of other women writers’ travel books, this article shows that she possessed a deep understanding of women’s travel writing genre as well as the issues of gender, power, and representation in their travel narratives. This article focuses on the fact that Wollstonecraft’s Short Residence, a collection of letters written to her lover, Imlay, features an enigmatic relationship between the writer and recipient. Though her private affair with Imlay was largely omitted in A Short Residence, the feeling of betrayal and abandonment sets the tone for the entirety of the travel letters. Wollstonecraft uses her failed relationship to express her deepest feelings of sorrow, depression, frustration, and oppression and paints her journey in northern countries as a movement toward freedom. The relationship between the letter-writer and its recipient was assumed to be a legally bound marriage at the time of publication; however, following Wollstonecraft’s death, the truth about her illicit relationship with Imlay was exposed, causing a decline in her reputation and the reputation of her letters. The article suggests that Wollstonecraft’s creation of mystery in the relationship is a deliberate effort to challenge the norms of the genre and question the moral standard by which the public judges the quality of works written by women.
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