Fanny Wright was a woman of “advanced” ideas, who about 1829–36 gave lectures in Eastern cities. She married a man named Darusmont. See ‘Dict. Nat. Biog.’
1829. In relation to its effect on morals or religion, [one hogshead of rum] would show the same results as Tom Paine’s writings or Miss Frances Wright’s lectures.—Mass. Spy, Dec. 9: from The Journal of Humanity.
1830. Mary Wolstoncraft [sic] and Fanny Wright, and a few others are merely oases in the boundless desert of female frivolity and insipidity.—N. Ames, ‘A Mariner’s Sketches,’ p. 99.
1834. They have elected an avowed infidel, a trustee of the Fanny Wright fund.—Vermont Free Press, Dec. 20.
1836. For me, nullification has no terrors; I am indifferent about the payment of the French claims; I am not alarmed at the proceedings of the abolitionists; and I care not whether the Fanny Wright doctrines or Agrarianism prevails, or whether the Loco Focos can keep their tallow candles burning in Tammany-Hall.—Knick. Mag., vii. 43 (Jan.).
1836. In permitting Fanny Wright, or Mrs. Frances Wright Darusmont, to advertise her lectures, we do not announce ourselves as the advocates of any sentiments uttered by her.—Phila. Public Ledger, Sept. 26.
1838. In a city of 300,000 inhabitants, 2,000 radicals, agrarians, Fanny-Wright men, and Locofocos can be found.—Major Noah in the N.Y. Evening Star: cited in J. S. Buckingham’s ‘America,’ i. 176 (1841).
1838. Mr. Mackenzie might have made his [paper] a champion of Atheism and the express organ of Fanny Wright in religion as well as politics without a word of comment from us.—The Jeffersonian, i. p. 223/3 (Sept. 1).
1838. (Oct.) Fanny Wright lectured in the Masonic Hall.—Chemung (N.Y.) Democrat, Nov. 8.
1840. Mr. Preston of South Carolina regretted to see the prevalence of such disorganizing and levelling doctrines, which were of the Fanny Wright school of politicians.—U.S. Senate, Feb. 14: Congressional Globe, p. 179, Appendix.
1844. [The phrase] the Fanny-Wright party, is, in the anger of debate, sometimes applied to the democratic party…. This charge of Fanny-Wrightism, as applied to the democratic party, has no foundation in truth.—Mr. Wentworth of Illinois in the House of Representatives, April: id., p. 510, App.
1844. Was the gentleman afraid that there was not enough Fanny-Wrightism in Indiana, and deemed it necessary to add to it?—Mr. Hardin of Ill., the same, March 29: id., p. 464.
