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

Send us a text 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 A Few Days in Athens by Frances Wright Views of Society and Manners in America by Frances Wright Frances Wright’s grave in Spring Grove Cemetery The Marquis de Lafayette Thomas Jefferson Walt Whitman Epicurus The Stoics New Harmony, Indiana Robert Owen Robert Dale Owen Nashoba Community Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, KY The Scottish Enlightenment The Second Great Awakening Support the show For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Subscribe to our substack newsletter. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast