Editing Frances Wright (section)

==Early life and education==
[[File:136 Nethergate Dundee.jpg|thumb|136 Nethergate Dundee]]
Frances "Fanny" Wright was born at 136 Nethergate in [[Dundee]], [[Scotland]], on September 6, 1795, to Camilla Campbell and her husband James Wright.<ref name=C-P236>{{Cite book|author=Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn|title=Encyclopedia of Women's History in America|year=1996|publisher=Facts on File|location=New York, New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo00cull/page/236 236]|isbn=0816026254|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo00cull/page/236}}</ref><ref name=Elliott141-42>{{cite journal| author=Elliott, Helen | title =Frances Wright's Experiment with Negro Emancipation | journal =Indiana Magazine of History | volume =35 | issue =2 | pages=141–42| publisher =Indiana University | location =Bloomington | date =June 1, 1939| url = https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/7133/7980 | access-date =May 1, 2019}}</ref>  Their house was then a newly built house by the town architect, [[Samuel Bell (architect)|Samuel Bell]] on the recently widened Nethergate, close to Dundee harbour.<ref>{{cite web |title=Samuel Bell |url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=405651 |website=Dictionary of Scottish Architects |access-date=June 24, 2021}}</ref>

Her father was a wealthy [[linen]] manufacturer,<ref name=NAW675>{{cite book | author = James, Edward T., Janet Wilson James, and Paul S. Boyer, eds. | title =Notable American Women 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary| publisher =Belknap Press | volume =3 | year =1971 | location = Cambridge, Massachusetts | pages=675| isbn =0-67462-731-8}}</ref> a designer of Dundee trade tokens, and a political radical. He corresponded with [[Adam Smith]] and was sympathetic to the American patriots and French republicans,<ref>{{cite journal| author=Lee, Elizabeth| title =Frances Wright: The First Woman Lecturer | journal =The Gentleman's Magazine | volume =276 | page=518 | publisher =Chatto and Windus | location =London, England | date =January 1894| url = https://archive.org/stream/gentlemansmagaz186unkngoog#page/n522/mode/2up
| access-date =May 2, 2019}}</ref> including [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette]], and [[Thomas Paine]]. Frances, or "Fanny" as she was called since childhood, was the second eldest of the family's three children. Her siblings included an older brother, who died when Frances was still young, and a sister named Camilla.<ref name=Bowman>{{cite encyclopedia| author=Bowman, Rebecca| title =Frances Wright | encyclopedia =Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia | publisher =Monticello.org | date =October 1996 | url =http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/frances-wright  | access-date =May 1, 2019}}</ref><ref name=Keating129-30>{{cite book | author=Keating, John M.| title=History of the City of Memphis Tennessee | publisher = D. Mason and Company | year =1888 | location =Syracuse, New York | pages=129–30 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=nGVAAAAAYAAJ&q=memphis+lafayette+1824&pg=PA124 }}</ref><ref name=Gilbert35-36>{{cite book | author=Gilbert, Amos | title =Memoir of Frances Wright, The Pioneer Woman in the Cause of Human Rights | publisher =Longley Brothers | year =1855 | location =Cincinnati, Ohio | pages =35–36 | url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106001055349;view=1up;seq=9  }}</ref> Wright's mother also died young, and her father died in 1798, when Frances was about the age of two. With support from a substantial inheritance, the orphaned Wright sisters were raised in England by members of the Campbell family, who were their mother's relatives.<ref name=Elliott141-42/><ref name=Sanders3>{{cite book | editor=Sanders, Mike | title =Women and Radicalism in the Nineteenth Century: Frances Wright | publisher =Routledge | volume =II | year =2001 | location =New York, New York | page =3 | isbn =0415205271}}</ref>

A maternal aunt became Wright's guardian and taught her ideas founded on the philosophy of the [[French materialism|French materialists]].<ref name=ac/> In 1813, when Wright was sixteen, she returned to Scotland to live with her great-uncle, [[James Mylne (philosopher)|James Mylne]], a philosophy professor at Glasgow College.<ref name=Bowman/> Wright was interested in the works of Greek philosophers, especially [[Epicurus]], who was the subject of her first book, ''A Few Days in Athens''  (1822), which she had written by the age of eighteen. Wright also studied history and became interested in the United States' democratic form of government.<ref name=Elliott141-42/>