Frances Wright

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Standard Name: Wright, Frances
Birth Name: Frances Wright
Married Name: Frances D'Arusmont
Pseudonym: An Englishwoman
Pseudonym: A Woman
FW was a writer in many genres: her œuvre includes a tragedy and a philosophical essay, but is dominated by political and feminist social critique, much of it taking the apparently ephemeral forms of lectures and letters. John Stuart Mill called her one of the most important women of her day
qtd. in
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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(that is, the earlier nineteenth century). The fact that much of her career was pursued in the United States means that she is often critically considered in the context of American literature and culture.
Portrait of Frances Wright by Henry Inman, 1824. She is looking to the left, plainly dressed in black with a red and white scarves, her brown, curly, shoulder-length hair parted in the middle.

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Textual Features Frances Trollope
In part through to her friendship with the abolitionist, writer, and activist Frances Wright , FT became interested in the condition of African slaves and the question of the mental equality, or inequality between us...
Textual Production Catherine Fanshawe
The letters that CF sent to Anne Grant are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their...
Textual Production Frances Trollope
During the 1850s FT also published the melodramatic novelThe Old World and the New, drawing on her own experiences to pen a double story of migration. A poverty-stricken English family makes a melodramatic...
Travel Frances Trollope
On this visit to Paris, Frances Wright persuaded FT to travel with her to her commune, Nashoba , in Tennessee.
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
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Travel Frances Trollope
In 1826 the Trollopes visited Paris again, where discussion amidst her circle often turned to Frances Wright 's communal-living experiment Nashoba in western Tennessee. Wright had purchased slaves whom she intended to educate and...
Travel Frances Trollope
Their first stop was New Orleans, where FT was first exposed to the American system of slavery that she came to loathe and denounce in her writings. She reflects on the prejudice against the...
Travel Frances Trollope
Whether or not Frances Wright 's utopian colony was FT 's chosen final destination, the decision to leave it came swiftly after her arrival. She and her travelling companions were disappointed by the conditions at...
Wealth and Poverty Frances Trollope
Facing destitution, and perhaps feeling unsure of her husband's ability to support the family, FT decided to take her two daughters, Cecilia and Emily , sixteen-year-old Henry , Auguste Hervieu , two servants, and most...

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