Frances Wright
（重定向自Fanny Wright）
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![1835 portrait of Wright](/Images/godic/202501/12/Frances_Wright_18354449.jpg")
![A hostile cartoon lampooning Wright for daring to deliver a series of lectures in 1829, at a time when many felt that public speaking was not an appropriate activity for women.](/Images/godic/202501/12/1829-Frances-Wright-goose-caricature4449.jpg")
![Frances Wright, c. 1825.](/Images/godic/202501/12/Franceswright4449.jpg")
Frances Wright (September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852) also widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer, who became a U. S. citizen in 1825. That year she founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee as a utopian community to prepare slaves for emancipation, intending to create an egalitarian place, but it lasted only three years. Her Views of Society and Manners in America (1821) brought her the most attention as a critique of the new nation.