Anna Wheeler

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Anna Wheeler has been called the most important feminist after Mary Wollstonecraft and before Emmeline Pankhurst .
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.
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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.

Milestones

1785
Anna Doyle (later AW ) was born in Limerick, Ireland.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
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1825
William Thompson and Anna Wheeler published an Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, under his name alone.
Thompson, William, Anna Wheeler, Michael Foot, and Marie Mulvey Roberts. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women. Thoemmes, 1994.
prelims
Late 1848
AW probably died in this year (the same in which her grand-daughter, Emily Bulwer-Lytton , died too at about twenty) or soon afterwards.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests that she may have survived for a couple more years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
349

Biography

Birth and Family

1785
Anna Doyle (later AW ) was born in Limerick, Ireland.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
349

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