Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

pubOne.info present you this new edition. 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&md