Robert Owen

In June 1828, on a visit to Robert Owen 's utopian community at New Harmony, Indiana, FW became coeditor (with Owen's son Robert Dale Owen ) of the New Harmony Gazette, a free-thinking...

By March 1848 FW had published a work of history entitled England, the Civilizer, Her History Developed in its Principles; with reference to the civilizational History of Modern Europe (America inclusive) and with a view...

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.

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...

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

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...