Frances Wright

Frances Wright (1795-1852) was a lecturer who grew up in London and toured the United States from 1818 to 1820. Wright advocated abolition, universal equality in education, and feminism. She also attacked organized religion, greed, and capitalism.

Wright was the co-founder of Free Inquirer magazine and is the author of Views of Society and Manners in America (1821), A Few Days in Athens (1822), and Course of Popular Lectures (1836).

Wright founded the Nashoba Commune in 1825, which which was destroyed by sensational negative publicity.

Along with Robert Owen, Wright demanded that the government offer free boarding schools.