Anna Wheeler (author)

Anna Doyle Wheeler was born in 1785, the daughter of a prebendary from Fennor Parish. She was married at 15 but separated from her husband 12 years later by moving to Guernsey. Left penniless on her husband's death in 1820, she supplemented her income by translating into English the works of Charles Fourier.

In London, she met Robert Owen, Jeremy Bentham and Frances Wright, and became close friends with William Thompson. In 1825, provoked by James Mill's dismissal of political represenation for women, Thompson wrote Appeal of One Half of the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men to Retain them in Political, and Hence in Civil and Domestic, Slavery. Thompson described the book as the "joint property " of himself and Anna Wheeler.

A staunch advocate of the rights of women and equal opportunities in political life and education, Anna Doyle Wheeler was forced to withdraw from public life in the 1840s due to ill health. She died in 1848.

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