 Imlay , unhappy with the domestic @-@ minded and maternal Wollstonecraft , eventually left her . He promised that he would return to Le Havre where she went to give birth to her child , but his delays in writing to her and his long absences convinced Wollstonecraft that he had found another woman . Her letters to him are full of needy expostulations , explained by most critics as the expressions of a deeply depressed woman but by some as a result of her circumstances — alone with an infant in the middle of a revolution . 
