Roberts, Marie Mulvey, Marie Mulvey Roberts, Tamae Mizuta, Marie Mulvey Roberts, and Tamae Mizuta, editors. “Introduction”. The Reformers: Socialist Feminism, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1995, p. xi - xv.
xii
Her deep involvement in the Owenite Socialist Movement
led her to translating work by French Saint-Simonians and writing in socialist journals such as The Crisis. She also co-authored a single, famous text with William Thompson
, an Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, To Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic, Slavery.
Constance's great-grandmother Anna Wheeler
is remembered with respect and gratitude by feminists (especially, perhaps, socialist feminists) for her authorship, jointly with William Thompson
, of the Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women...
Family and Intimate relationships
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Rosina's mother, Anna Wheeler
, was a prominent Owenite socialist and supporter of women's rights. As joint author with William Thompson
of the Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, 1825, she won...
Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992.
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Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
223, 227-8
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Hays
Immediate responses were, in the manner characteristic of the times, polarised by political allegiance.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
115-16
The Critical Review offered endorsement: Here we find a woman arguing for the rights of her sex with female volubility...
Residence
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Rosina Wheeler (later Bulwer Lytton)
was not yet ten when in August 1812 her mother
left her father
. She took her two surviving daughters and moved with them to Guernsey.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931.
72-3
Textual Production
Mary Hays
Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women by MH
was anonymously published.
This novel is largely autobiographical, and contains an unsympathetic portrait of the author's mother, radical feminist Anna Wheeler
, in the character of Aunt Marley. The school that Rosina attended is also portrayed as a...