Frances Wright, Scottish-American author and activist (died 1852)

Frances Wright

Scottish-American philosopher, feminist writer, and socialist activist and reformer

Frances Wright, widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, utopian socialist, abolitionist, social reformer, and Epicurean philosopher, who became a US citizen in 1825. The same year, she founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee as…