Author: Celia Morris
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252062490
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Frances Wright dared to take Thomas Jefferson seriously when he wrote, ' All men are created equal, ' and to assume that 'men' meant 'women' as well. Born in Scotland in 1795, she came to the United States in 1818, and spent half her adult life here, she died in Ohio in 1852, ending a lifetime devoted to promoting equality among the races and the sexes. The Marquis de Lafayette called her his adored Fanny and paid court so openly that he scandalized even his own family. The first woman to act publicly to oppose slavery. The pampered daughter of a highly stratified class society, she cast her lot with the working people, risking her health, her fortune, and her good name to realize the promise of the Declaration of Independence. With a boldness rare in women of her day, she attacked in print and in lecture halls throughout the country an economic system that allowed not only black slavery in the South but what she called wage slavery in the North. With the exception perhaps of Walt Whitman, she wrote more powerfully of sexual experience than any other American the nineteenth century.
Fanny Wright
Author: Celia Morris
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252062490
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Frances Wright dared to take Thomas Jefferson seriously when he wrote, ' All men are created equal, ' and to assume that 'men' meant 'women' as well. Born in Scotland in 1795, she came to the United States in 1818, and spent half her adult life here, she died in Ohio in 1852, ending a lifetime devoted to promoting equality among the races and the sexes. The Marquis de Lafayette called her his adored Fanny and paid court so openly that he scandalized even his own family. The first woman to act publicly to oppose slavery. The pampered daughter of a highly stratified class society, she cast her lot with the working people, risking her health, her fortune, and her good name to realize the promise of the Declaration of Independence. With a boldness rare in women of her day, she attacked in print and in lecture halls throughout the country an economic system that allowed not only black slavery in the South but what she called wage slavery in the North. With the exception perhaps of Walt Whitman, she wrote more powerfully of sexual experience than any other American the nineteenth century.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252062490
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Frances Wright dared to take Thomas Jefferson seriously when he wrote, ' All men are created equal, ' and to assume that 'men' meant 'women' as well. Born in Scotland in 1795, she came to the United States in 1818, and spent half her adult life here, she died in Ohio in 1852, ending a lifetime devoted to promoting equality among the races and the sexes. The Marquis de Lafayette called her his adored Fanny and paid court so openly that he scandalized even his own family. The first woman to act publicly to oppose slavery. The pampered daughter of a highly stratified class society, she cast her lot with the working people, risking her health, her fortune, and her good name to realize the promise of the Declaration of Independence. With a boldness rare in women of her day, she attacked in print and in lecture halls throughout the country an economic system that allowed not only black slavery in the South but what she called wage slavery in the North. With the exception perhaps of Walt Whitman, she wrote more powerfully of sexual experience than any other American the nineteenth century.
Fanny Wright Unmasked by Her Own Pen
Author: Frances Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Fanny: A Fiction
Author: Edmund White
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780060004859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
In her fifties, Mrs. Frances Trollope became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet -- the biography of her old friend, the radical and feminist Fanny Wright. She recalls the 1820s when the young Fanny erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her red hair flying, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Wright convinced her to follow her to America, a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships, and the most satisfying sensual romance of Frances Trollope's life. Fanny: A Fiction is a wonderful new departure for Edmund White -- a quirky, dazzling story of two extraordinary nineteenth-century women, and a vibrant, questioning exploration of the nature of idealism, the clay feet of heroes, and the illusory power of the American dream.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780060004859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
In her fifties, Mrs. Frances Trollope became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet -- the biography of her old friend, the radical and feminist Fanny Wright. She recalls the 1820s when the young Fanny erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her red hair flying, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Wright convinced her to follow her to America, a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships, and the most satisfying sensual romance of Frances Trollope's life. Fanny: A Fiction is a wonderful new departure for Edmund White -- a quirky, dazzling story of two extraordinary nineteenth-century women, and a vibrant, questioning exploration of the nature of idealism, the clay feet of heroes, and the illusory power of the American dream.
Memoir of Frances Wright
Author: Amos Gilbert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social reformers
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social reformers
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Restless City
Author: Joanne Reitano
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136964436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a short, lively history of the world’s most exciting and diverse metropolis. It shows how New York’s perpetual struggles for power, wealth, and status exemplify the vigor, creativity, resilience, and influence of the nation’s premier urban center. The updated second edition includes nineteen images and brings the story right up through the mayoral election of 2009. In these pages are the stories of a broad cross-section of people and events that shaped the city, including mayors and moguls, women and workers, and policemen and poets. Joanne Reitano shows how New York has invigorated the American dream by confronting the fundamental economic, political, and social challenges that face every city. Energized by change, enriched by immigrants, and enlivened by provocative leaders, New York City’s restlessness has always been its greatest asset.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136964436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a short, lively history of the world’s most exciting and diverse metropolis. It shows how New York’s perpetual struggles for power, wealth, and status exemplify the vigor, creativity, resilience, and influence of the nation’s premier urban center. The updated second edition includes nineteen images and brings the story right up through the mayoral election of 2009. In these pages are the stories of a broad cross-section of people and events that shaped the city, including mayors and moguls, women and workers, and policemen and poets. Joanne Reitano shows how New York has invigorated the American dream by confronting the fundamental economic, political, and social challenges that face every city. Energized by change, enriched by immigrants, and enlivened by provocative leaders, New York City’s restlessness has always been its greatest asset.
An American Glossary
Author: Richard Hopwood Thornton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Domestic Manners of the Americans
Author: Frances Trollope
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199676879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Domestic Manners of the Americans is an entertaining, witty, and often scathing account of Trollope's travels in America between 1827 and 1832 and her criticisms of American manners, from vulgarity to the treatment of slaves. One of the most influential travel books of the century, it also speaks to political debates on equality in England.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199676879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Domestic Manners of the Americans is an entertaining, witty, and often scathing account of Trollope's travels in America between 1827 and 1832 and her criticisms of American manners, from vulgarity to the treatment of slaves. One of the most influential travel books of the century, it also speaks to political debates on equality in England.
Frances Wright, Free Enquirer
Author: Alice J. G. Perkins
Publisher: Philadelphia : Porcupine Press, 1972 [c1939]
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher: Philadelphia : Porcupine Press, 1972 [c1939]
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Course of Popular Lectures
Author: Frances Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Fanny Wright (1795-1852).
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The National Women's Hall of Fame presents a biographical sketch of the American reformer Fanny Wright (1795-1852). Wright spoke publicly against slavery and for the equality of women. A portrait of Wright is included.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The National Women's Hall of Fame presents a biographical sketch of the American reformer Fanny Wright (1795-1852). Wright spoke publicly against slavery and for the equality of women. A portrait of Wright is included.