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Gilbert Imlay (February 9, 1754 – November 20, 1828) was an American businessman, author, and diplomat. He served in the U.S. embassy to France and became one of the earliest American writers, producing two books, the influential A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America, and a novel, The Emigrants, both ...
16 mag 2016 · This radical and abolitionist Gilbert Imlay is the man Wollstonecraft fell in love with and dreamed of living with “on a farm in the pristine American wilderness.” Inlay also wrote what is considered the first American frontier novel, The Emigrants (1793), with some assistance from Wollstonecraft.
30 apr 2018 · Il suo soggiorno in Francia durerà fino al 1795, anno in cui tornerà in Inghilterra dopo la nascita della figlia Fanny avuta da Gilbert Imlay, un uomo d’affari americano che l’abbandonerà spingendola al tentato suicidio due volte in due anni.
Gilbert Imlay. Gilbert Imlay, ? 1754 - 1828, American speculator and diplomat. Imlay, an army officer during the American War for Independence, settled for a time in Kentucky, writing from his experiences on the then-frontier a valuable Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America , published in London in 1792.
Conosce Gilbert Imlay, un imprenditore statunitense che la nasconde nell’ambasciata americana e poi a Le Havre, facendosi passare per suo marito; con Imlay concepisce una figlia, nata il 14 ...
The American Gilbert Imlay (c. 1754– c. 1828) was a man of many talents and trades.Described by one commentator as ‘unscrupulous, independent, courageous, a dodger of debts to the poor, a deserter, a protector of the helpless, a revolutionist, a man of enlightenment beyond his age, a greedy and treacherous land booster’, Gilbert Imlay was all of these and more.
Mary Wollstonecraft never crossed the Atlantic. Her youngest brother, Charles, emigrated to America, while another brother, James, took French citizenship. Mary herself became a United States citizen through her American lover, ‘Captain’ Gilbert Imlay,...
