Frances Wright

One of his favorite visitors was Frances Wright, a Scottish-born reformer who believed in free love and who was a follower of another education reformer, Robert Owen.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

It was there that British feminist and social reformer Frances Wright established a colony for freed blacks as early as the 1820s, and was run out of town when rumors of interracial free love flourished.

Is Obama a Self-Hating White? What Booker T & the MGs Have To Do With It 2008

After a more-senses-than-one flirtation with the ideas of another reformer, Frances Wright at her Nashoba commune for freed black slaves in Tennessee, Robert ended up in the Indiana legislature and then the U.S. Congress.

American Connections James Burke 2007

After a more-senses-than-one flirtation with the ideas of another reformer, Frances Wright at her Nashoba commune for freed black slaves in Tennessee, Robert ended up in the Indiana legislature and then the U.S. Congress.

American Connections James Burke 2007

The movement had started with the visit of Scottish activist Frances Wright to America in 1827.

1848, Jan. 24 2001

Having heard that the celebrated Frances Wright, authoress of "A Few Days in Athens," was publicly preaching and promulgating her doctrines in the city, I determined on paying the "Hall of Science" a visit, in which establishment she usually lectured.

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Miss Phillips held up her hand to caution Ruth not to go any farther; and Frances Wright, who, next to Marjorie, had been most interested in the girl from the start, protested vehemently.

The Girl Scouts' Good Turn Edith Lavell

In the same year Frances Wright suggested a school on a similar basis.

The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War Carter Godwin Woodson 1912

The wealthy and intelligent Englishwoman, Frances Wright, who came to this country in 1818 to attack slavery, found herself doubly opposed because she was a woman speaking in public.

Woman in Modern Society Earl Barnes 1898

Frances Wright had long been aware of its insidious efforts, and its reliance upon women for its support.

Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates Helen Kendrick Johnson 1880