Frances Wright, 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.
- Occupation
- writer, philosopher, social reformer, feminist
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United States
- Born
- September 6, 1795, 1795
- Died
- December 13, 1852, 1852
