拍品專文
Provenance: Vesey Dawson (bookplate)
The letters had all been sent to Gilbert Imlay who returned them for publication at Mary's request (a similar request to Fuseli had been refused). "Although the letters were touched with melancholy personal complaints they were also full of sharply-sketched accounts of the people she met ... the social conditions she found and the northern scenery of rocks, waterfalls and forests in its summer incarnation. Some of the phrases were good enough to provide Coleridge with inspiration" (Claire Tomalin, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, 1977, pp. 236-37).
The letters had all been sent to Gilbert Imlay who returned them for publication at Mary's request (a similar request to Fuseli had been refused). "Although the letters were touched with melancholy personal complaints they were also full of sharply-sketched accounts of the people she met ... the social conditions she found and the northern scenery of rocks, waterfalls and forests in its summer incarnation. Some of the phrases were good enough to provide Coleridge with inspiration" (Claire Tomalin, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, 1977, pp. 236-37).