Frances Wright: September 6, 1795-December 13,1852
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In her biography of Wright, Cecilia Morris Eckhardt writes that young Wright's "scholarship led her to classical drama as well as to European and English poetry, which she studied . . . by imitation. She found relief through writing: to name her feelings was to understand and to control them. In a poem apparently from this period [????] she wrote of losing a beloved friend:
Fair star! May every joy be thine! May though never prove the bitter anguish Of love so true, so fond as mine, Doomed without hope untold to languish.
Oh had I but the Lesbyan's lyre, Blue-eyed Sappho's fervid strain, Then might I hope thy blood to fire, Then should I make thee share my pain.[1]
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- ↑ Cecil Morris Eckhardt, Fanny Wright: Rebel in America (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992), p. 10. Note 26 on page 301 cites Theresa Wolfson Papers, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
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