Status Updates From Letters written in Sweden, ...

Believe it or not, this is actually the first time I’ve read something from Mary Wollstonecraft, mother (quite literally) of Mary Shelley!

Note to self: must read A Vindication of the Rights of Women! 😅

“The want of scientific pursuits perhaps accounts for the hospitality, as well as for the cordial reception which strangers receive from the inhabitants of small towns.”

“Why fly my thoughts abroad when every thing around me appears at home?” (p. 11)

“Futurity, what hast thou not to give to those who know that there is such a thing as happiness! I speak not of philosophical contentment, though pain has afforded them the strongest conviction of it.” (p. 12)