Shortly after, the publication of her "Thoughts 4n the Education of Daughters," Mary Wollstonecraft went to London. She was advised and assisted by Mr. Johnson, a celebrated Fleet Street pulisher, who employed her as reader and trans. Tator and accepted her con to the "Analytical Review.
Mary was happy and°full of amble tion, "At twenty-nine years of ago her anxiety was to make up for time that was lost. Accordingly she shut herself up in the Blackfriars district, resolved to succeed und to be Known; but ere long she was enticed from seclusion and established as something of a "lion." She hag a reputation and she had looks. From London, at a later date, Southey wrote to Cottle—"Of all the literati T have seen here, Mary Imlay's face the best, infinitely the best.'
Romance and Tragedy Her "Vindication of the Rights of Women" appeared in 1792 and soon became known throughout Europe, Nowadays it seems a tedious book, not too clearly written; but it has a driving force of sincerity and a basis of such commonsense that we can readily appreciate the furore it caused towards the end of the eighteenth century.
Mary next went to Paris, and it was in that that she met Captain Imlay, a wealthy Americas, Imlay and Mary fell in love and.
together for two and a halt years. Of this union was born Fanny Imlay, who committed suicide many years later, supposedly on the discovery of her illegitimacy.
Imlay's desertion Mary returned to London in a pitable condition. Hor grief and despair were so violent that she attempted to drown herself in the Thames, near Battersea Bridge, but she was rescued—and compelled to return to the bitterness her life.
Time helped, 9 was a woman' of dependence, She gained the friendship of the philosopher William Godwin, and in 1796 became this wife. Twelve months later she died in giv ing birth to Mary Godwin, atter-wards known as Mary Shelley.—- Marion B. Nelson Glasgow Hero
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