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	Reader's Companion to American History - -WRIGHT, FRANCES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Undaunted, Wright joined with Owen's son, Robert Dale Owen, in 1828 to edit a newspaper at the Owenite community at New Harmony, Indiana, and defied the limits on women by appearing widely as a public lecturer.
		Wright returned to the United States in 1835 to resume her writing and lecturing, but her radical edge had dulled.
		Wright formed an important transatlantic bridge between the drawing-room radicalism of the rationalist Enlightenment and the secularist reform and radical movements of the nineteenth century.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_094300_wrightfrance.htm (761 words)

	Profile
		Frances (Fanny) Wright was born to James and Camilla Campbell Wright on September 6, 1795, in Dundee, Scotland.
		Although Wright was not bothered by criticism of clergy, press, and her friends at the time, she did eventually become an outcast from her previous social acquaintances.
		After her lifetime, Frances Wright became known as the first woman ever to write a travelog, to become a playwright, to speak publicly and conduct lecture tours in the U.S. She was the first to advocate free public schools for all children and equal rights for women.
	www.depauw.edu /library/archives/ijhof/inductees/wrightf.htm (1157 words)

	Women in History of Scots Descent - Frances Wright, Woman's Advocate
		Frances Wright was born in 1795 in Scotland but had an early interest in America.
		Wright condemned capital punishment and demanded improvements in the status of women, including equal education, legal rights for married women, liberal divorce laws, and birth control.
		Wright did not achieve much individual success; after a lifetime of struggling for high ideals, she spent the last years of her life trying to settle financial affairs and a complicated divorce.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/women/wih3.htm (737 words)

	FRANCES WRIGHT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Like William Maclure and the five children of Robert Owen who resided in New Harmony, Frances Wright, known in her day as Fanny Wright, was born in Scotland.
		That same year, Wright urged Congress toward A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States Without Danger of Loss to the Citizens of the South, and she purchased 640 acres near Memphis, naming the tract Nashoba.
		Among Wright's themes were the liberalizing of divorce laws, birth control, free state-run secular education, the political organization of laborers, equal rights for women, and objectionable ecclesiastical influences in politics.
	faculty.evansville.edu /ck6/bstud/wright.html (442 words)

	Frances Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Frances Wright (1795 - 1852) was alecturer who grew up in London and toured the United States from 1818 to 1820.She lived in France for a while and married a French physician, Guillayme D'Arusmont.Wright advocated abolition, universal equality in education, and feminism.
		Wright was the co-founder of Free Inquirer magazine and is the author of Views of Society and Manners in America (1821), A Few Days in Athens (1822), and Course of PopularLectures (1836).
		Wright founded the NashobaCommune in 1825, intending to educate slaves to prepare them for freedom andcolonization in Haiti.
	www.therfcc.org /frances-wright-240537.html (236 words)

	JMISC #11: Frances Wright's 'Explanatory Notes' on Nashoba
		Frances Wright was a British-born radical reformer/adventurer who became an American citizen, and considered the United States her home after 1824.
		In England and France, Wright reenvisioned the enterprise as a communal place of work and education, in which the marriage contract would be invalid (the Rubicon having been crossed), and the two races would learn to live in peace and harmony.
		As Wright composed a sort of manifesto to be presented to the newpaper of another communal venture in the American west, (Robert Owen's New Harmony), Mrs.
	www.earlyrepublic.net /jm970325.htm (4006 words)

	Frances Wright Biography / Biography of Frances Wright Main Biography
		Frances Wright (1795-1852), Scottish-American socialist, feminist, and reformer, was the first woman to speak publicly in America.
		Frances Wright was born in Dundee, Scotland, on Sept. 6, 1795.
		Wright was distinguished for her personal courage, amounting at times to foolhardiness, and for the liberality of her views on public questions.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-frances-wright (219 words)

	YouthInkIT: Publishing By and For Youth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Frances Wright is the founding director, president and CEO of the Famous 5 Foundation, a group that honours five Alberta women who made a difference.
		Wright along with her good friend, Nancy Millar, came up with the idea to create the Famous 5 Foundation in the summer of 1995.
		At the time, Wright explained, she visited all of the Famous 5's graves and was shocked to find that none of the women's major achievements were listed on their graves.
	youthinkit.com /content/issues/fighting5.asp (478 words)

	Lafayette College - Lafayette and Slavery - Frances Wright
		Frances Wright (1795-1852) was a British author and reformer whose account of her visit to America in 1818-20, Views of Society and Manners in America (1821), was among the most celebrated of nineteenth-century travel memoirs.
		Wright's emancipation experiment unfolded on a two thousand acre tract of mosquito infested wilderness in Tennessee, near Memphis, which she purchased in 1825.
		Faced with failure, Wright chartered a brig in January 1830 and took the entire population of Nashoba (thirteen adults and eighteen children) to Haiti and freedom.
	ww2.lafayette.edu /~library/special/specialexhibits/slaveryexhibit/onlineexhibit/franceswright.htm (397 words)

	Wright, Frances
		Born in Dundee, Scotland, on September 6, 1795, Frances Wright was the daughter of a well-to-do merchant and political radical who had circulated the works of Thomas Paine.
		During Wright's absence in 1827 owing to ill health, a scandal broke over charges of free love; on her return to Nashoba in company with Frances Trollope in January 1828 she found a ruin.
		Wright and her husband were divorced in 1850.
	www.search.eb.com /women/articles/Wright_Frances.html (668 words)

	North Carolina Society for Ethical Culture
		When Frances Wright was 18, she settled with other relatives in Glasgow, where she was reunited with her younger sister Camilla, who would henceforth be her companion and confidant.
		Frances Wright found in Robert Owen a shared vision, and with Owen and his son Robert Dale Owen, a friendship that would influence the rest of her life.
		Frances Wright’s lectures and opinions had increasingly distanced her from the aristocratic society of Lafayette.
	www.ncethicalsociety.org /rb.plat022700.shtml (4750 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Frances Wright
		Wright, Frances (1795-1852), Anglo-American social reformer, born in Dundee, Scotland.
		Anglo-American social reformer Frances Wright commemorated United States Independence Day 1828 with this speech at the New Harmony settlement in...
		Wright, Sewall (1889-1988), American geneticist, best known for his genetic studies of guinea pigs and for his research on evolution.
	encarta.msn.com /Frances_Wright.html (125 words)

	FWright-sem.htm
		Frances Wright very much wanted the world and people to be good.
		She was perhaps 15...witnessing the painful labor of the aged among the English peasantry; and again, when she saw that peasantry ejected...from the estates of the wealthy.
		But it was attacked and ridiculed as "Frances Wright's Free Love Colony," because it was known that she was against laws that made women literally the property of their husbands.
	www.nancyhuntting.net /FWright-sem2.htm (809 words)

	Frances Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Frances Wright (1795-1852) era un conferenciante que creció hacia arriba en Londres y viajó los Estados Unidos a partir de 1818 a 1820.
		Wright era el co-fundador del compartimiento libre del investigador y es el autor de vistas de la sociedad y de maneras en América (1821), algunos días en Atenas (1822), y el curso de las conferencias populares (1836).
		Wright fundó la comuna de Nashoba en 1825, preponiéndose educar esclavos para prepararlos para la libertad y la colonización en Haití.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/fr/Frances%20Wright.htm (284 words)

	Freethought of the Day
		On this date in 1795, Frances Wright, the first woman to publicly lecture in the United States, was born an heiress in Scotland.
		At 34, Wright launched her speaking career on July 4, 1828, in Cincinnati, seeking to "destroy the slavery of the mind," and counteract the effects of a religious revival on women, as well as the Christian Party in Politics movement.
		Wright called for the education of women and the rejection of religion.
	www.ffrf.org /day?day=6&month=9 (864 words)

	FRANCES WRIGHT
		Frances Wright was arguably the most radical utopian thinker and activist in antebellum America.
		Wright adopted the notions of cooperative labor and universal education expressed by these utopian endeavors as the means to the abolition of slavery.
		Wright hoped to obtain support from white slave owners for the community in which slaves would labor in the fields to repay their purchase price, while receiving education for liberty for themselves and their children.
	www.irwinator.com /women/doc117.htm (620 words)

	CONAN DOYLE & THE COTTINGLEY FAIRIES CASE
		Wright took no notice of it but then a month later, Frances photographed Elsie with what the girls claimed was a gnome.
		Wright was amused by the photos and to appease his wife (who was a believer), he combed the area around the beck and searched for signs of either of fairies or fraud.
		Wright's wife, Polly, though was a member of the Theosophical Society (founded by Madame Helena Blavatsky), which flourished in an atmosphere of belief and excitement about the impossible.
	www.prairieghosts.com /fairies.html (1143 words)

	C. Wright Mills
		Mills's mother, Frances Wright Mills, also liked telling the stories of her Texas ancestors, although her view of them was quite different from her son's.
		Braxton Bragg Wright (father of Frances Wright and grandfather of Charles Wright Mills) was born at Lagarta, Texas.
		Calvin Wright was a frontiersman and he taught his sons the ways of the Indians and the Mexicans.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/m/mills-writings.html (4973 words)

	C. Wright Mills.org
		C. Wright Mills at age twenty-eight in a photo he submitted with his application for a Guggenheim Foundation grant in late 1944.
		Mills' parents, Charles Grover Mills and Frances Ursula Wright, in San Antonio, Texas in 1940 when Mills was studying at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
		C. Wright Mills' maternal grandparents: Braxton Bragg Wright, a cattle rancher whose family had been in America for several generations, and his wife, Elizabeth Gallagher Wright (Biggy), the daughter of immigrants from Leitrim County, Ireland.
	www.cwrightmills.org (137 words)

	Children of Freethought, Winter 1998-1999
		Frances Wright was born in Scotland in 1795 to a wealthy family.
		Frances wrote that her dream was “To develop all the intellectual and physical powers of all human beings, without regard to sex or condition, class, race, nation or color” - a simple statement of the ideals for which this magnificent woman worked all her life.
		Frances was far ahead of her time in the first half of the nineteenth century, and, in some instances, her ideas are still ahead of the times in which we now live at the end of the twentieth century.
	www.americanatheist.org /win98-99/T1/gray.html (3313 words)

	Pre-Inception Rhetoric in the Creation of a Social Movement: The Case of Frances Wright - Questia Online Library
		The view that Wright was unimportant is explicit in the research of Molly Abel Travis who argues that Wright played little role in the development of the women's rights movement (Travis, 1993).
		She concludes that Wright's call for sexual equality produced an "overwhelming" response in which "Everyone criticized her" and that Wright "continued to be a target of hatred" (Kolmerten, 1990, pp.
		Similarly, Travis notes that Wright "became the symbol of political evil incarnate" and that the "term Fanny Wrightism was used to discredit all liberal causes" (Travis, 1993, pp.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5001791923 (576 words)

	National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
		The first American woman to speak publicly against slavery and for the equality of women, Fanny Wright was a rebel who pursued equality for all.
		Wright was an inspiration to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
		In 1852 she published a treatise setting forth a plan for the gradual emancipation of all American slaves, and in 1825 created Nashoba, a settlement in Tennessee to train slaves for freedom.
	www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=173 (299 words)

	Wright, Frances -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Wright was the daughter of a well-to-do Scottish merchant and political radical who had circulated the works of Thomas…
		The American social reformer Frances Wright was born in Dundee, Scotland, on Sept. 6, 1795.
		Although his novels were set in many different parts of the country, Morris was best known for his portrayal of the bleak life on the Nebraska prairie, which was the setting for what many critics considered his most...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077555?tocId=9077555&query=france&ct= (725 words)

	Fanny Wright
		In the journal Wright advocated socialism, the abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, free secular education, birth control, changes in the marriage and divorce laws.
		Frances Wright, little known to the present generation, was really the spiritual helpmate and better half of the Owens, in the socialistic revival of 1826.
		Frances Wright was the first woman in this country who spoke on the equality of the sexes.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REwright.htm (1843 words)

	Frances Wright
		In 1828, Frances began her anti- clerical lectures.
		She spoke about abolishing slavery and about the effects that religion was having on people.
		Frances main purpose was to make people realize that inequalities had to come to an end.
	discovery.coe.uh.edu /linkedf04/students/muniz_h/Fanny%20Wright.htm (249 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the 1820's, Frances Wright -- a follower of the Utopian philosopher Robert Owen -- visited America and wrote a long series of letters home to Glasgow.
		Returning to America, Wright championed the anti-slavery cause and that of the Utopian communities, serving as co-editor of the New Harmony Gazette, which subsequently became Free Enquirer (N.Y., 1829).
		Wright's letters are scattered in various collections, but files of the Free Enquirer (for the period of her editorship) are at Rutgers Univ.
	www.zetetics.com /indfem/wright.htm (184 words)

	Frances Wright, "Letter XXIII: Condition of Women," Mar 1820
		Document 3A: Frances Wright, excerpt from "Letter XXIII: Condition of Women," (March 1820) in Views of Society and Manners in America (London: Longman, 1821; reprinted in Views of Society and Manners in America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963), pp.
		Frances Wright (1795-1852) brought the tradition of Mary Wollstonecraft to the United States on a series of visits that began in 1818.
		In the late 1820s Wright's public speaking tour of northern American cities broke the popular prohibition against women speaking in public, a precedent that was not followed until Angelina and Sarah Grimké's speaking tour of Massachusetts in 1837 (see Document 3B).
	www.binghamton.edu /womhist/awrm/doc3.htm (1726 words)

	Frances W. Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The late Frances Wright, a Harvard University astronomer, taught celestial navigation to U.S. Navy and Army officers enrolled in special courses during World War II.
		During more than half a century of research and teaching, Wright’s studies ranged from investigating specks of cosmic dust called spherules to calculating the brightness of galaxies and developing systematic efforts to observe comets and meteors.
		Wright also contributed to Navigation: Journal of the Institute of Navigation and was a member of the American Astronomical Society, The Meteorical Society, and the Institute of Navigation.
	www.cornellmaritimepress.com /fwright.htm (108 words)

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