Robert Owen

These letters are among the few identified examples of AW 's own prose. She addressed the first in the series To Robert Owen , Esq. in response to a speech given by Owen...

HM 's Illustrations tale For Each and For All (often in later editions subtitled or, Letitia and Maria) is an attack from a Ricardian standpoint on Owen ite socialism. She modified the anti-socialist tone...

Among her subjects are Lady Byron (an occasion for HM to deplore Byron 's conduct and influence), Mary Berry , Mary Russell Mitford , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Marcet , Amelia Opie , Mary Somerville

Following Paris publication, the volume appeared in London later that year. By 1842, it had reached a third edition in London and a fourth in Paris. The latter was a popular edition dedicated to French...

Like many of her books this first one uses a historical perspective to explain the nature of present-day institutions, going back to the ideas of Robert Owen and their working out in practice.

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...