Anna Wheeler

01 January 1785 - 31 December 1848

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

Roberts, Marie Mulvey et al., 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.

BirthName: Anna Doyle
Married: Wheeler
Pseudonyms: Concordia
Swindles, Julia. Political Women 1800 - 1850. Editors Frow, Ruth and Edmund Frow, Pluto Press, 1989.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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 et al. 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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.

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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.

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