Frances K Wright

Celestial Navigation: A Quick, Easy, and Thorough Explanation, with Realistically Worked Examples, of the Practice of Celestial Navigation at Sea, Using Simple and Inexpensive Equipment and Requiring

Coastwise Navigation

A Few Days in Athens; Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum

Celestial Navigation

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the Shawl

This is a Scottish family saga which spans 5 generations. In the early 19th century Ireland’s weaving mills change from cotton to linen production. In order to develop his weaving career Henry Shields moves to Crosslee, Scotland. Promotion follows when his labour of love - a shawl - is exhibited in ...

A Few Days With Epicurus

"A Few Days With Epicurus" includes the full text of Frances Wright's masterpiece "A Few Days in Athens" along with a new introduction, notes, and extensive Appendix "Elemental Epicureanism." Thomas Jefferson called Frances Wright's book "a treat to me of the highest order."

Views of Society and Manners in America

Katherine and Isabel: Mother's Light, Daughter's Journey

This biography explores the personal lives and professional accomplishments of Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. These two visionary women created the Myers-Briggs Type Indicatorr inventory and are now considered giants in the field of psychological measurement. Contents Preface Part On...

Reason, Religion, and Morals (Classics in Women's Studies)

Originally published as Course of Popular Lectures, the works collected in this volume display the gift for oratory and range of progressive ideas that made Frances Wright (1795-1852) both a sought-after lecturer and a controversial figure in early 19th-century America. Born in Scotland, this pionee...

Fanny Wright: Rebel in America

Reprint of the Harvard U. Press edition of 1984 endorsed by BCL3 . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Frances Wright Wikiquote

Frances Wright (September 6 1795 December 13 1852), also widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scotland-born lecturer, writer, feminist, abolitionist, and...

Frances Wright

Frances Wright (September 6, 1795 December 13, 1852) also widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist,...