Editing Frances Wright (section)

===Early career===
Wright's early writing career included her book, ''Few Days in Athens'' (1822), which was a defense of the philosophy of [[Epicurus]], written before the age of eighteen.<ref name=Elliott141-42/><ref name=Bowman/><ref name=ac>{{Cite AmCyc|wstitle=Wright, Frances}}</ref> Wright's ''Views of Society and Manners in America'' (1821), a memoir of her first visit to the United States, enthusiastically supported the country's democratic institutions.<ref name=ac/><ref name=C-P236/><ref name=Sanders3/> This book provides early descriptions of American life that preceded later works such as [[Alexis De Tocqueville]]'s ''[[Democracy in America]]'' (1835 and 1840) and [[Harriet Martineau]]'s ''Society in America'' (1837).<ref name=Sanders3-4/> Wright's book is also an example of an early nineteenth-century humanitarian perspective of the new democratic world.<ref name=Okker/> Historian Helen Elliott also pointed out that Wright's travelogue was "translated into several languages and widely read by liberals and reformers" in Great Britain, the United States, and Europe.<ref name=Elliott143-44/>