Fanny Imlay
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Her voice did quiver as we parted, Yet knew I not that heart was broken From which it came, and I departed Heeding not the words then spoken. Misery—O Misery, This world is all too wide for thee.
Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie (c. 1797)
Before one of her suicide attempts, Wollstonecraft wrote at the top of the first page of Lessons: "The first book of a series which I intended to have written for my unfortunate girl."
William Godwin, Fanny Imlay's stepfather (James Northcote, oil on canvas, 1802, the National Portrait Gallery)
The Polygon (at left) in Somers Town, London, between Camden Town and St Pancras, where Fanny spent her childhood years
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights. Until the late twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconvention
Fanny Imlay
…for thee. Frances Imlay (14 May 1794 – 9 October 1816), also known as Fanny Godwin and Frances Wollstonecraft, was the daughter of the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the American commercial speculator and diplomat Gilbert Imlay. Wollstonecraft wrote about her frequently in her later works. Fanny grew up in the…
c. 1797 portrait
Wollstonecraft in 1790–1791, by John Opie
Frontispiece to the 1791 edition of Original Stories from Real Life engraved by William Blake
The insurrection of 10 August 1792