William Godwin's Diary

Wright, Frances

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 4 times, and was a venue (V) 1 time.

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1827

17  October  1827 19  October  1827 31  October  1827 1  November  1827 (V)

  • Name: Wright, Frances
  • Gender: Female
  • Birth Date: 6  September  1795
  • Death Date: 13  December  1852
  • Occupation: social reformer

Godwin meets Frances Wright in 1827, in the company of Robert Dale Owen, with whom she had returned to Europe after establishing 'Nashoba' a utopian community in America. She returned to America in 1828. There is surviving correspondence between her and Mary Shelley, together with the letter she wrote to Godwin inviting him to come to see her so that she could tell him of the project based on the principles of Political Justice, and his the day after apologising for not having done justice to the ambitions of the scheme.

  • MS. Abinger c. 47, fols. 98-9, 110-11, 123-25, 132-38: Summer 1827- March 1828; to Godwin: MS. Abinger c. 13. fol. 58: 17 Oct. 1827; from Godwin: MS. Abinger c. 20, fol. 7: 19 Oct. 1827
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This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.

Name Number of Meetings
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (née Godwin) 1
Owen, Robert 1
Owen, Robert Dale 1