ABSTRACT
As Imlay’s representative, Wollstonecraft traveled, with her infant daughter in tow, to Scandinavia on a mission to retrieve his loss or stollen silver. Her adventure gives testimony to Wollstonecraft’s fortitude and intrepidness as she traveled with her baby and a maid across some extremely rough terrain and dealt with some cutthroat businessmen at a time when women simply did not travel without a male escort and did not participate in businesses that were the purview of men. This chapter considers all that she learned from this experience, revealed not only in her Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) but in her later work and her conduct after her return to England. Letters is rarely studied as a feminist work, but it is just that, as this chapter will maintain.
