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Title: Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

Editor: Henry Morley

Release Date: December 30, 2007 [eBook #3529]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LETTERS WRITTEN DURING A SHORT
RESIDENCE IN SWEDEN, NORWAY, AND DENMARK***

Transcribed from the 1889 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

CASSELL'S NATIONAL LIBRARY.

LETTERS
WRITTEN
_DURING A SHORT RESIDENCE_
IN
SWEDEN, NORWAY, AND
DENMARK

BY
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT.

CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited:
_LONDON_, _PARIS_, _NEW YORK & MELBOURNE_.
1889.

INTRODUCTION.

Mary Wollstonecraft was born on the 27th of April, 1759. Her father--a
quick-tempered and unsettled man, capable of beating wife, or child, or
dog--was the son of a manufacturer who made money in Spitalfields, when
Spitalfields was prosperous. Her mother was a rigorous Irishwoman, of
the Dixons of Ballyshannon. Edward John Wollstonecraft--of whose
children, besides Mary, the second child, three sons and two daughters
lived to be men and women--in course of the got rid of about ten thousand
pounds, which had been left him by his father. He began to get rid of it
by farming. Mary Wollstonecraft's first-remembered home was in a farm at
Epping. When she was five years old the family moved to another farm, by
the Chelmsford Road. When she was between six and seven years old they
moved again, to the neighbourhood of Barking. There they remained three
years before the next move, which was to a farm near Beverley, in
Yorkshire. In Yorkshire they remained six years, and Mary Wollstonecraft
had there what education fell to her lot between the ages of ten and
sixteen. Edward John Wollstonecraft then gave up farming to venture upon
a commercial speculation. This caused him to live for a year and a half
at Queen's Row, Hoxton. His daughter Mary was then sixteen; and while at
Hoxton she had her education advan