Course of Popular Lectures as delivered by Frances Wright in New-York, (etc.)... with All Her Addresses on various public occasions. And a reply to the charges against the French Reformers of 1789.
New York: G. W. & A. J. Matsell 1836. 12mo, pp. [7]-239 + blank + [ff 1] + [3]-21 + blank + [3]-20 + [3]-13 + blank + [3]-22 + 4 (ads); half-linen and contemporary drab paper boards; original printed paper spine label; library ticket to spine; library stamps to top edge and front pastedown; library stamps and pencil annotations to title leaf; pp. [5]-8 faultily printed with top margin trimmed and bottom margin to edge of text block; scattered foxing; card pocket to rear pastedown; good. Properly deaccessioned. Good. Boards. [21217]
Sixth edition, containing the Course of Popular Lectures, Supplement Course of Lectures containing the last Four Lectures delivered in the United States, Address, Containing a Review of the Times..., An address to young mechanics as delivered in the Hall of Science, and Parting Address, as delivered in the Bowery Theatre to the People of New York, in June 1830.
Scottish-born Frances ("Fanny") Wright (1795-1852) was the first American woman to speak publicly against slavery and for the equality of women under the law. Her first social experiment was at Nashoba, her Tennessee farm where she attempted to educate slaves and slaveholders alike in the possibility of freedom. The experiment failed, and nearly cost her her sanity. Later she was associated with Lafayette, Mary Shelley, the Owenites, and other radical reformers. Wright advocated and lectured on a number of highly controversial topics at the time, including free love and birth control, interracial unions, the rights of women, free speech, and the workingmen's movement.
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