Frances Wright
(1795-1852)
Social Reformer, Writer

Boyer, Paul S. "Wright, Frances (Sept. 6, 1795-Dec. 13, 1852)." In Notable American Women, 1607-1950, edited by Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, and Paul S. Boyer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.


Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright: Rebel in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Emerson, O.B. "Frances Wright and Her Nashoba Experiment." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 6 (1947): 291-314.

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