LETTERS WRITTEN IN SWEDEN NORWAY AND DENMARK (OXFORD WORLD C

Mary Wollstonecraft set out for Scandinavia just two weeks after her first suicide attempt, on a mission from the lover whose affections she doubted, to recover his silver on a ship that had gone missing. With her baby daughter and a nursemaid in tow, she travelled across the dramatic landscape and wrote sublime descriptions of the natural world, events and people she encountered. Both an arresting travel book and a moving exploration of the pioneering feminist’s personal and political selves.