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Frances Wright (other)
Frances Wright was a writer and reformer. Frances Wright may also refer to: * Frances Claudia Wright (1919–2010), Sierra Leonean lawyer * Frances Kazan, née Frances Wright *Frannie Wright on ''Holiday Ranch'' *Frances Wright, political candidate for Calgary Centre Calgary Centre (french: Calgary-Centre; formerly known as Calgary South Centre) is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968. The riding consists of many young ad ... * Frances Woodworth Wright (1897–1989), American astronomer See also * Frank Wright (other) {{hndis, Wright, Frances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Wright
Frances Wright (September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852), widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, utopian socialist, abolitionist, social reformer, and Epicurean philosopher, who became a US citizen in 1825. The same year, she founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee as a utopian community to demonstrate how to prepare slaves for eventual emancipation, but the project lasted only five years. In the late 1820s Wright was among the first women in America to speak publicly about politics and social reform before gatherings of both men and women. She advocated universal education, the emancipation of slaves, birth control, equal rights, sexual freedom, legal rights for married women, and liberal divorce laws. Wright was also vocal in her opposition to organized religion and capital punishment. The clergy and the press harshly criticized Wright's radical views. Her public lectures in the United States led to the establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Claudia Wright
Frances Claudia Wright, OBE (5 March 1919 – 2 April 2010), was a prominent Sierra Leonean lawyer during the 20th century. Known as "West Africa's Portia", in 1941 Wright was the first Sierra Leonean woman to be called to the Bar in Great Britain and to practise law in Sierra Leone. Early life Frances Claudia Wright was born in Freetown, British Sierra Leone, to Sierra Leone Creole parents, Claude and Eva Wright. Her father Claude and his brother Ernest Jenner were born in England to Sophie Slocombe, an English woman, and the Sierra Leone Creole man Claudius Ernest Wright, then a student. He later became a lawyer who served on the Legislative Council of Sierra Leone and as mayor of Freetown. Like his father, Claude studied law. He was called to the Bar at the age of 21, at the top of his class. He went to Sierra Leone from England in search of his father, finding that he had died and left Claude's half siblings in debt. Deciding to settle in the Creole society of Freetown, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Kazan
Frances Kazan (born 1946) is an English-born American author, best known for her 2002 historical novel '' Halide’s Gift''. Biography Born Frances Wright in Brighton, England. She has a B.A. in English literature and an M.A. in Turkish Studies from New York University. She is a longtime resident of New York City. Kazan has been married twice: to Peter Rudge, former manager of The Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd; and to the director and writer Elia Kazan, from 1981 until his death in 2003. She has two adult children, Joseph and Charlotte Rudge. From 1997 to 2005, Kazan served as New York correspondent for ''Cornucopia'', an English language magazine about Turkish culture. Frances Kazan was instrumental in the 2009 Target Margin Theater production of '' Ten Blocks on the Camino Real'', the one-act play by Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holiday Ranch
''Holiday Ranch'' was a Canadian television country music–themed variety program airing on the CBC from 1953 to 1958. The show initially aired on weeknights then moved to a weekly Saturday night schedule before ''Hockey Night in Canada CBC Television has aired National Hockey League (NHL) broadcasts under the ''Hockey Night in Canada'' (often abbreviated ''Hockey Night'' or ''HNiC'') brand that is primarily associated with its Saturday night NHL broadcasts throughout its hi ...''. The set of the series was a ranch house and the plot featured a set of regulars who visited the ranch each week. The production cost was approximately $5000 per episode. The show was considered among the most popular in 1950s Canadian television. References CBC Television original programming 1950s Canadian variety television series 1953 Canadian television series debuts 1958 Canadian television series endings Black-and-white Canadian television shows {{Canada-nonfiction-tv-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary Centre
Calgary Centre (french: Calgary-Centre; formerly known as Calgary South Centre) is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968. The riding consists of many young adults who have a relatively high average household income and education level. As the riding encompasses the downtown core and large swaths of apartment blocks in the communities west and south of downtown, Calgary Centre has a low home ownership rate compared to the rest of Canada. History The original Calgary Centre was created in 1966 from parts of the former electoral districts of Calgary North and Calgary South. This riding was abolished in the 2003 Representation Order when parts of it went to the neighbouring electoral districts of Calgary North Centre and Calgary West and to Calgary South Centre. The latter was renamed Calgary Centre in 2004. When it was created in 2003 (as Calgary South Centre), it included 70,972 people from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Woodworth Wright
Frances Woodworth Wright (April 30, 1897 – July 30, 1989) was an American astronomer based at Harvard University. During World War II, she taught celestial navigation to military officers and engineers. Early life Frances Woodworth Wright was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the daughter of George William Wright and Nellie Woodworth Wright. As a child in 1907, Wright wrote a short essay titled "My Favorite Poem", for the popular national children's magazine ''St. Nicholas''. She earned a bachelor's degree at Brown University in 1920. She was granted a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College in 1958, as a student of Fred Whipple. Career Wright taught astronomy and mathematics at Elmira College before she was hired to be a computer at Harvard College Observatory. There she became a close friend of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. The two women traveled across the United States by car together in 1930, to visit observatories in the American west, camping along the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
