Thompson, William, and Anna Wheeler. “Introduction”. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, edited by Michael, b. 1913 Foot and Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994.
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William Thompson
Standard Name: Thompson, William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Lytton | Constance's great-grandmother Anna Wheeler
is remembered with respect and gratitude by feminists (especially, perhaps, socialist feminists) for her authorship, jointly with William Thompson
, of the Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | Rosina's mother, Anna Wheeler
, was a prominent Owenite socialist and supporter of women's rights. As joint author with William Thompson
of the Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, 1825, she won... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Wheeler | Some time this year, AW
met the socialist economist William Thompson
at Jeremy Bentham
's house in Queen's Square Place, London. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Hays | Immediate responses were, in the manner characteristic of the times, polarised by political allegiance. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993. 115-16 |
| politics | Anna Wheeler | Once established in London by the mid 1820s, AW
moved among the socialist intelligentsia, choosing as her associates Jeremy Bentham
, whom she claimed to [adore] as a philosopher and [love] as a friend, qtd. in Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996. 350 |
| Author summary | Anna Wheeler | Anna Wheeler
has been called the most important feminist after Mary Wollstonecraft
and before Emmeline Pankhurst
. Roberts, Marie Mulvey et al., editors. “Introduction”. The Reformers: Socialist Feminism, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1995, p. xi - xv. xii |
| Textual Features | Anna Wheeler | The Appeal begins with an Introductory Letter to Mrs. Wheeler in which William Thompson
expresses his reasons for writing the Appeal: an attempt to arrange the expression of those feelings, sentiments, and reasonings, which... |
| Textual Features | Anna Wheeler | The Introductory Letter to Mrs. Wheeler also outlines the Appeal's breadth of scope: AW
and Thompson
believed that the very eradication of capitalism was required for women to achieve not only formal equality but... |
| Textual Production | Anna Wheeler | AW
wrote pamphlets about women's rights for the co-operative movement under the pseudonym Vlasta. She wrote of the oppressive effects on women of the ideology of romantic love, and the need for women to... |
| Textual Production | Mary Hays | Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women by MH
was anonymously published. Scholars disagree: Gina Luria
(following William Thompson
and Anna Wheeler
) assigns this to MH
; Gary Kelly
doubts... |
| Textual Production | Anne Burke | Following this highly productive year, AB
wrote several times more to beg for subsistence from the Royal Literary Fund
. Despite her still generally favourable reviews, she ceased to refer, as she had in her... |
| Textual Production | Anna Wheeler | William Thompson
and Anna Wheeler
published an Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, under his name alone. Thompson, William et al. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women. Thoemmes, 1994. prelims |
| Wealth and Poverty | Anna Wheeler | AW
's friend and colleague William Thompson
died, leaving her an annuity of £100. Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996. 351 |
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Texts
Thompson, William, and Anna Wheeler. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825.
Thompson, William et al. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women. Thoemmes, 1994.
Thompson, William, and Anna Wheeler. “Introduction”. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, edited by Michael, b. 1913 Foot and Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994.