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Frances Wright, auch Fanny Wright genannt (* 6. September 1795 in Dundee, Schottland; † 13. Dezember 1852 in Cincinnati, Ohio ), war eine zu ihrer Zeit bekannte Sozialreformerin und eine der frühsten und unerschrockensten Frauenrechtlerinnen.
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.
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16. Apr. 2024 · Frances Wright (born Sept. 6, 1795, Dundee, Scot.—died Dec. 13, 1852, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.) 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. Wright was the daughter of ...
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18. Aug. 2020 · Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia. Frances Wright (1795-1852), born in Scotland and orphaned at the age of two, rose from rather inauspicious beginnings to fame as a writer and reformer.
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), which was widely read and praised.
8. Okt. 2017 · Frances Wright was a radical utopian thinker and activist who advocated for women's rights, abolition, and education in antebellum America. She founded the biracial community of Nashoba in Tennessee, but it failed due to criticism and controversy.
Frances Wright was an abolitionist, feminist, freethinker, and social reformer. Born in Scotland, Wright was transfixed from an early age by the egalitarian promise of America, but later disappointed by its hypocrisy in upholding the institution of slavery.
