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...
Friends, Associates
Anna Wheeler
Some time this year, AW
met the socialist economist William Thompson
at Jeremy Bentham
's house in Queen's Square Place, London.
Thompson, William, and Anna Wheeler. “Introduction”. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, edited by Michael, b. 1913 Foot and Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994.
vii
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...
politics
Anna Wheeler
Once established in London by the mid 1820s, AW
moved among the socialist intelligentsia, choosing as her associates Jeremy Bentham
, whom she claimed to [adore] as a philosopher and [love] as a friend,
qtd. in
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
Roberts, Marie Mulvey et al., 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...
Textual Features
Anna Wheeler
The Introductory Letter to Mrs. Wheeler also outlines the Appeal's breadth of scope: AW
and Thompson
believed that the very eradication of capitalism was required for women to achieve not only formal equality but...
Textual Features
Anna Wheeler
The Appeal begins with an Introductory Letter to Mrs. Wheeler in which William Thompson
expresses his reasons for writing the Appeal: an attempt to arrange the expression of those feelings, sentiments, and reasonings, which...
Textual Production
Anna Wheeler
AW
wrote pamphlets about women's rights for the co-operative movement under the pseudonym Vlasta. She wrote of the oppressive effects on women of the ideology of romantic love, and the need for women to...
Textual Production
Mary Hays
Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women by MH
was anonymously published.
Following this highly productive year, AB
wrote several times more to beg for subsistence from the Royal Literary Fund
. Despite her still generally favourable reviews, she ceased to refer, as she had in her...
Textual Production
Anna Wheeler
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
Wealth and Poverty
Anna Wheeler
AW
's friend and colleague William Thompson
died, leaving her an annuity of £100.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
351
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Texts
Thompson, William, and Anna Wheeler. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825.
Thompson, William et al. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women. Thoemmes, 1994.
Thompson, William, and Anna Wheeler. “Introduction”. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, edited by Michael, b. 1913 Foot and Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994.