Frances Wright and the 'Great Experiment'
Lane, Margaret
| Publication Date |
1972 |
| ISBN |
071900473X |
| Publisher |
Manchester University Press, |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Good+, sound copy |
| SKU |
24834 |
| Notes |
Externally rather dust marked with ink transfer. Some age toning to pages. Ownership inscription in green ink to front endpaper. Text is clean. Binding is sound. |
Description
Hardback. 50pp. A study of the life and work of Frances Wright (1795-1852) the Scottish political and social reformer who spent much of her adult life in the USA where she was associated with the New York based Working Men's Party as well as New Harmony, Welshman Robert Owen's utopian settlement in Indiana. unusually for a woman in the nineteenth century she gave public lectures as well as writing. She was the editor of the New Harmony newspaper as well as the author of a successful travelogue Her Views of Society and Manners in America (1821). Indexed.
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