Hello, friends. Recently, I mentioned reading and loving Claire Tomalin's biography of Mary Wollstonecraft. I've now become completely obsessed with the question of Mary Wollstonecraft's elder daughter, Fanny. Fanny was born in 1794 in revolutionary Paris, the result of a short, passionate affair between Wollstonecraft and a handsome, fickle, frequently dishonest American named Gilbert Imlay. … [Read more...]