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Frances Wright

1795 - 1852

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Frances Wright (September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852), 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 a utopian community to demonstrate how to prepare slaves for eventual emancipation, but the project lasted only five years. In the late 1820s, Wright was among the first women in America to speak publicly about politics and social reform before gatherings of both men and women. She advocated universal education, the emancipation of slaves, birth control, equal rights, sexual freedom, legal rights for married women, and liberal divorce laws. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frances Wright is the 6,051st most popular writer (up from 6,414th in 2019), the 5,073rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,609th in 2019) and the 552nd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Frances Wright ranks 6,051 out of 7,302. Before her are Dmitri Prigov, August Alle, Katri Vala, Danièle Sallenave, Mike Godwin, and Darren Shan. After her are Dmitry Gordon, Julian Symons, Kjell Ola Dahl, Saroo Brierley, Wolfgang Hohlbein, and Jonathan Safran Foer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Frances Wright ranks 66. Before her are José Miguel de Velasco Franco, Charles Sturt, Josep Bonaplata i Corriol, Vasily Perovsky, Benizelos Roufos, and Benjamin Franklin Butler. After her are William Lyon Mackenzie, Benjamin Morrell, and Robert F. Stockton. Among people deceased in 1852, Frances Wright ranks 63. Before her are Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, František Čelakovský, Christoph Gudermann, Francisco Javier Echeverría, Álvares de Azevedo, and Rose Philippine Duchesne. After her are Walter Forward, John George Children, Andrew Jackson Downing, and Horatio Greenough.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frances Wright ranks 5,075 out of 8,785. Before her are Robert Smirke (1780), Mehdi Hasan (1979), Rhodri Morgan (1939), Dennis Taylor (1949), Richard A. Proctor (1837), and Darren Shan (1972). After her are Sam Tingle (1921), Barbara Shelley (1932), John Castle (1940), Don McCullin (1935), Julian Symons (1912), and Jermain Defoe (1982).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Frances Wright ranks 552. Before her are Thomas Campbell (1777), Thomas Heywood (1574), Thomas Warton (1728), Edmund Gosse (1849), Ali Smith (1962), and Darren Shan (1972). After her are Julian Symons (1912), Anthony Powell (1905), Mary Lamb (1764), Hugh Blair (1718), Dora Marsden (1882), and Stella Gibbons (1902).

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