Fanny Wright

Author : Celia Morris
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062490
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fanny Wright written by Celia Morris and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Frances Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Few Days in Athens, Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum written by Frances Wright and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frances Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fanny Wright Unmasked by Her Own Pen written by Frances Wright and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060004851
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fanny: A Fiction written by Edmund White and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Joanne Reitano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136964436
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Restless City written by Joanne Reitano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Richard Hopwood Thornton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Glossary written by Richard Hopwood Thornton and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frances Wright
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538150085
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reason, Religion, and Morals written by Frances Wright and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as Course of Popular Lectures, the works collected in this volume display the gift for oratory and range of progressive ideas that made Frances Wright (1795-1852) both a sought-after lecturer and a controversial figure in early nineteenth-century America. Born in Scotland, this pioneering freethinker and abolitionist emigrated to America in her twenties and became friends with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In 1828, she joined Robert Dale Owen's socialist community at New Harmony, Indiana, and helped him edit his New Harmony Gazette. The next year she and Owen moved to New York City, where they published Free Enquirer, which advocated liberalized divorce laws; birth control; free, state-run, secular education; and organization of the disadvantaged working class. It was at this time that she began delivering the popular lectures here collected. Some persistent themes that run throughout these well-argued pieces are: the importance of free, impartial inquiry conducted in a scientific spirit and not influenced by religious superstition or popular prejudice; the need for better, universal education that trains young minds in scientific inquiry rather than religious dogma; the advantage of focusing on the facts of the here-and-now rather than theological speculations; and the failure of American society to live up to its noble ideals of equality and justice for all. With an insightful introduction by Wright scholar Susan S. Adams (Emeritus Professor of English, Northern Kentucky University), these stimulating lectures by an early and little-known feminist and freethinker will be of interest to students and scholars of women's studies, humanism, and freethought.

Author : Alice J. G. Perkins
Publisher : Philadelphia : Porcupine Press, 1972 [c1939]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frances Wright, Free Enquirer written by Alice J. G. Perkins and published by Philadelphia : Porcupine Press, 1972 [c1939]. This book was released on 1972 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Wright Falade
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802159206
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Cloud Rising written by David Wright Falade and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia, and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of these former slaves led by General Edward Augustus Wild—a one-armed, impassioned Abolitionist—set out from Portsmouth to hunt down the rebel guerillas and extinguish the threat. From this little-known historical episode comes Black Cloud Rising, a dramatic, moving account of these soldiers—men who only weeks earlier had been enslaved, but were now Union infantrymen setting out to fight their former owners. At the heart of the narrative is Sergeant Richard Etheridge, the son of a slave and her master, raised with some privileges but constantly reminded of his place. Deeply conflicted about his past, Richard is eager to show himself to be a credit to his race. As the African Brigade conducts raids through the areas occupied by the Confederate Partisan Rangers, he and his comrades recognize that they are fighting for more than territory. Wild’s mission is to prove that his troops can be trusted as soldiers in combat. And because many of the men have fled from the very plantations in their path, each raid is also an opportunity to free loved ones left behind. For Richard, this means the possibility of reuniting with Fanny, the woman he hopes to marry one day. With powerful depictions of the bonds formed between fighting men and heartrending scenes of sacrifice and courage, Black Cloud Rising offers a compelling and nuanced portrait of enslaved men and women crossing the threshold to freedom.

Author : Frances Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Course of Popular Lectures written by Frances Wright and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: