Frances Wright (September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852), widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, utopian socialist, abolitionist, social reformer, and Epicurean philosopher, who became a US citizen in 1825.

Frances Wright was a Scottish-born American social reformer whose revolutionary views on religion, education, marriage, birth control, and other matters made her both a popular author and lecturer and a target of vilification.

2025年3月27日 · While Wright was quite comfortable embracing unconventional manners, Lafayette was a man of a different generation, and despite his liberal political views, he struggled mightily to explain the somewhat unorthodox figure of Wright in his life. Letter, Frances Wright to Jean-Pierre Pagès, November 15, 1824 [misdated December].

Frances Wright (1795–1852), also known as Fanny Wright, was a freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and sex radical. She was one of the first women to address audiences of mixed gender across the United States, including in west-central New York State.

2017年10月8日 · Frances Wright was arguably the most radical utopian thinker and activist in antebellum America. She advocated the freedom and equality of women, African American slaves, and white working people and designed social experiments to bring the United States closer to what she considered its fundamental principles.

2020年8月18日 · Frances Wright (1795-1852) was a liberated British intellectual, friend of the Marquis de Lafayette, and founder of Nashoba, an egalitarian community in Tennessee.

Frances Wright was a lecturer, writer, free-thinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer - all in one life time. As an abolitionist, she was the first American woman to speak publicly against slavery.

At a time when few women assumed a public role, Frances Wright became the first woman in America to ascend to fame as a public speaker and social reformer. By 1830, her notoriety had reached such a level that the New York City press labeled her "The Red Harlot of Infidelity."

Frances Wright, known as Fanny Wright, (born Sept. 6, 1795, Dundee, Angus, Scot.—died Dec. 13, 1852, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.), Scottish-born American social reformer. After travels in the U.S., she published Views of Society and Manners in America (1821), …

Frances Wright was a wealthy 30-year-old Scotswoman when she came to the Tennessee wilderness in 1825 to make a reality of her dream: “To develop all the intellectual and physical powers of all human beings without regard to sex or condition, class, race, nation or …