"Norse Letters" Author: [British] Mary Wollstonecraft Translator: Li Boting Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press

☆Literary monument Mary Wollstonecraft series, before Chizuko Ueno, Mary was already a pioneer of feminism;

☆Mary Wollstonecraft, a British feminist pioneer, moved Godwin, Wordsworth and Southey with her Nordic travel letters, private love letters and rational books;

☆A moving travelogue written in the form of letters by the British female writer and the mother of Mary Shelley, describing her experiences in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The content covers sociological thinking on the three Nordic countries and their people, women's liberation and philosophical topics

【Content Introduction】

“I thought to myself that all the world’s a stage, and there are few who are not obliged to play a part which they have learned by rote. Those who are not obliged to play a part seem to be targets for fate to hurl its blows at, or to be guideposts for others to follow, and must be forced to stand still in the mud and dust.”

In 1796, the 37-year-old British writer Mary Wollstonecraft embarked on a long adventure in Northern Europe with their two-year-old illegitimate daughter in order to help her lover Imlay recover the merchant ship full of silver and to win back the heart of her unfaithful lover. During more than three months in Scandinavia, she wrote 25 letters. This is her private travelogue and also a moving memoir. The letters cover a wide range of topics, from sociological thinking on the three Nordic countries and their people, women's liberation to philosophical topics such as the relationship between man and nature. This book is the last work published by this pioneer of feminist thought before her death. Her later husband, philosopher Godwin, commented: "If there is a book that can make a man fall in love with its author, it is this one for me." It even influenced romantic poets such as Southey, Wordsworth and Coleridge in terms of theme and aesthetics.

【Recommended by famous experts】

Have you ever read Mary Wollstonecraft's The Norse Letters? She made me fall in love with cold climates, frost and snow, and northern moonlight.

——[British] Robert Southey (British "Poet Laureate")

If there is a book that can make a man fall in love with its author, for me, this is it. She tells of her sorrow in a way that fills us with melancholy, melts us in tenderness, and at the same time displays a genius that is admirable.

——[British] William Godwin

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a famous British female writer and thinker in the 18th century. She is best known for her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which is regarded as the first feminist declaration in Western history and occupies an important position in the history of European thought.