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Frances Wright


Born
in Nethergate, Dundee, Scotland
September 06, 1795

Died
December 13, 1852

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Frances Wright, widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer, who became a US citizen in 1825. The same year, she founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee, as a utopian community to demonstrate how to prepare slaves for eventual emancipation, but the project lasted only five years. In the late 1820s Wright was the first woman lecturer to speak publicly before gatherings of men and women in the United States about political and social-reform issues. She advocated for universal education, the emancipation of slaves, birth control, equal rights, sexual freedom, legal rights for married women, and liberal divorce laws. Wright was also vocal in her opposition to orga ...more

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A Few Days in Athens

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4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1822 — 9 editions
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A Few Days in Athens; being...

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Reason, Religion, and Morals

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the Shawl

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Views of Society and Manner...

3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1821 — 42 editions
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A Few Days In Athens

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Resuscitating Friendship

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Threads of the Shawl

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Life: It Doesn't Always Wai...

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Speech at New Harmony Hall

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“Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.”
Frances Wright

“I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.”
Frances Wright

“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”
Frances Wright