Frances Wright, 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.
Portrait by Henry Inman, 1824
136 Nethergate Dundee
1835 portrait of Wright
Frances Wright, c. 1825.
Freethought is an epistemological viewpoint which holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, and should instead be reached by other methods such as logic, reason, and empirical observation.
Tombstone detail of a freethinker, late 19th century (Cemetery of Cullera, Spain)
Bust of Bertrand Russell in London.
Pansy is a symbol of freethought.
Hommage aux morts de la Libre-pensée, 1881.