I was interested in seeing you are in Cincinatti to learn if you have researched Frances Wright who died there.. When I searched for her ‘England, the Civilizer’ 4 decades ago I learned her papers highly disrespected by her daughter and for some reason I recall last reported lost in the attic of a male.choreographer. As you may note from the artist statement in “dwelling in tents…” I’ve exercised artist license to share my imagings about her. From my random pursuits of secondary sources after discovering on a pilgrimage to new harmony in 1970 a review of her ‘economic history of the world’ published 1848, that she, a woman was also co founder of the international working men’s association and then abandoned her public speaking to protect it from attacks to dismiss it’s goals vis a vis labor by denigrating its leader as a female advocate of free love, I thought of her as the progressive and Victoria Woodhull whom I never read associated with the
working men’s association as guiding feminism away
from its origin with Frances in association with the origin
of labor, socialist and communist organizing and thought in America. I confess I was disappointed when I finally read “England the Civilizer” on microfilm in the Tx A&m in corpus Christi library 5 years ago. I prefer my imaging of Marx reading it, which of course he might have and distilled what was useful, but he’d have footnoted it, wouldn’t he have? He didn’t however, to my knowledge footnote Bettina Von Arnim, with whom German feminists have documented he spent a day conversing. It occurs to me to wonder now if Engels did. She is credited with commissioning the first systematic gathering of data on working conditions, weavers, as I recall of Silescia(sp?)

I envy your factual research and am grateful you have been able to persist and share your findings. I am not ashamed of having been forced to retreat taking refuge in the guise of lady artist dependent on a hard working loyal husband. But I do wish I’d had the influence Gloria Stinem and Victoria Woodhull enjoyed in their time.