In its agitated syntax, organized, like Emily Dickinson’s verse, around the pointed use of dashes, its aggressive vulnerability, and its flouting of social proscription, this letter acts as a template for how Wollstonecraft will manage both her private epistolary relationships and her public readership: her demand to have “first place or none” in her friendships testifying to Wollstonecraft’s extreme – literally all-or-nothing – demands on her readers.