Frances Wright — A Few Days in Athens with Tristra Yeager and Eleanor Rust

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How do you engage with others in a polarized society? Early 19-century writer and freethinker Frances “Fanny” Wright offers an ostensible how-to manual in the witty didactic novel she penned at age 19, A Few Days in Athens. Wright’s radical ideas garnered her the praise of Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette and Walt Whitman, to name a few, but detractors dubbed her “The Red Harlot of Infidelity.” Tristra Yeager and Eleanor Rust, hosts of the 2024 podcast “Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical,” join us to discuss Wright’s historical importance and relevance to today’s political and cultural conversations.

Mentioned in this episode:

“Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical” podcast (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frances-wright-a…)

A Few Days in Athens (bookshop.org/p/books/a-few-days-in-athens-the-…) by Frances Wright

Views of Society and Manners in America (bookshop.org/p/books/views-of-society-and-mann…) by Frances Wright

Frances Wright’s grave (pbs.org/video/spring-grove-cemetery-and-arbore…) in Spring Grove Cemetery

The Marquis de Lafayette (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marqu…)

Thomas Jefferson

Walt Whitman

Epicurus (iep.utm.edu/epicur)

The Stoics (iep.utm.edu/stoicism)

New Harmony, (usi.edu/hnh/student-and-faculty-engagement-opp…) Indiana

Robert Owen (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen)

Robert Dale Owen (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dale_Owen)

Nashoba Community (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashoba_Community)

Shaker Village (shakervillageky.org) in Pleasant Hill, KY

The Scottish Enlightenment (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Enlightenment)

The Second Great Awakening (britannica.com/topic/Second-Great-Awakening)

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