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Frances Wright

1795 - 1852

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Frances Wright (September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852), 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. In the late 1820s, Wright was among the first women in America to speak publicly about politics and social reform before gatherings of both men and women. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frances Wright has received more than 233,427 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Frances Wright is the 6,414th most popular writer (down from 5,708th in 2019), the 5,607th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,979th in 2019) and the 640th most popular British Writer.

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  • 230k

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  • 41.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frances Wright ranks 6,414 out of 7,302. Before her are Māra Zālīte, Ayi Kwei Armah, James Branch Cabell, Michael McClure, Andrew Sarris, and Jáchym Topol. After her are Michal Šanda, Thomas Hood, Klas Östergren, Tana French, Jenny Erpenbeck, and Barbara Kingsolver.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Frances Wright ranks 68. Before her are Charles Sturt, John Francis Davis, Benjamin Franklin Butler, William Lyon Mackenzie, Josep Bonaplata i Corriol, and Christian Friedrich Ecklon. After her is Robert F. Stockton. Among people deceased in 1852, Frances Wright ranks 64. Before her are František Čelakovský, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Francisco Javier Echeverría, Christoph Gudermann, Jacques Bernard Hombron, and Horatio Greenough. After her are Walter Forward, Andrew Jackson Downing, and John George Children.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frances Wright ranks 5,607 out of 8,785. Before her are Rob Knox (1989), Albert Ireton (1879), Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1983), Hughie Gallacher (1903), John McEnery (1943), and Herbert Baker (1862). After her are William Orbit (1956), Thomas Hood (1799), Perry McCarthy (1961), Ben Wallace (1970), Rupert Evans (1976), and Emily Bergl (1975).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Frances Wright ranks 640. Before her are H. R. F. Keating (1926), Alfred Austin (1835), George Peele (1556), Barry Unsworth (1930), Mary Berry (1935), and Thomas Percy (1729). After her are Thomas Hood (1799), Anna Löwenstein (1951), Samuel Daniel (1562), Kate Mosse (1961), James Bowen (1979), and Ann Oakley (1944).

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