Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) is a personal travel narrative by the eighteenth-century British feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. The twenty-five letters cover a wide range of topics, from sociological reflections on Scandinavia and its peoples to philosophical questions regarding identity. Published by Wollstonecraft's career-long publisher, Joseph Johnson, it was the last work issued during her lifetime.
Title page from the first edition of Letters (1796)
John Opie, Mary Wollstonecraft, (c. 1797)
Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Rousseau,(1753)
"Waterfall" by Joseph Anton Koch (1796)
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1796.
Portrait of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais