Review: Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
This is a book, which in my opinion, should be read like a modern day blog. Considering that these are letters which are put together to form a book, I think it would be prudent to read them letter by letter rather than to binge read them. The author, Mary Wollstonecraft, more popularly known for her book "Vindication for the rights of women", seems to have come from the English upper classes of the time (Not quite gentry). If you were a voracious reader of 18th and 19th century literature, reading this book would be a breeze. On the other hand I had "unfortunate" circumstances wherein which I had to re-read and sometimes consult a dictionary/ thesaurus for reference, especially when I struggled to understand the thesis of a statement or paragraph. In the first couple of letters there seems to be a sense that there were only a few "well- bred" people in the areas mostly rural she visited. They seem to have not acquired the English and French tastes. The
