Love Letters to Imlay

Letters written between 1793 and 1795 by the English writer Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay, an American doing business in France. It all begins in Paris during the Revolution: to escape the prison that threatens the English, she takes the name “Mrs Imlay” and lives with him. But Imlay is often away, and she writes to him almost every day, tender, lively, sometimes teasing. Then come Le Havre, the birth of their daughter Fanny, London, and a journey to Sweden and Norway on Imlay’s business. An intimate correspondence in which a woman says frankly what she expects from love.