Item of the Day: Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1804)

Full Title: Memoirs of M. Wollstonecraft Godwin, Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Philadelphia: Printed by Samuel Ackerman, No. 159, Race-Street, 1804.
MEMOIRS
OF
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN,
CHAPTER I.
1759-1775
IT has always appeared to me, that to give to the public some account of the life of a person of eminent merit deceased, is a duty incumbent [...]