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\u201cReferring to Miss Wrights Lecture on Knowledge\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cReferring to Miss Wright’s Lecture on Knowledge\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Literary Register<\/em> (March 7, 1829, Oxford Ohio), 96.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

This pseudonymous poem by \u201cPort Folio,\u201d praises Frances Wright, who in 1828 had repeatedly delivered a sensationally controversial lecture, \u201cOn the Nature of Knowledge<\/a>,\u201d in Cincinnati. An abolitionist, a socialist, a free-thinker, a champion of women\u2019s rights, and a staunch opponent of religious faith, Wright had traveled to Cincinnati in 1828 to \u201cto take up the cause of insulted reason and outraged humanity\u201d by presenting a series of lectures on knowledge and human reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author of this poem praises Wright as a \u201ccomet\u201d that \u201ccomes to guide us,\u201d but also introduces a note of ambivalence\u2013or plausible deniability\u2013by describing Wright as a new Eve, who \u201cnow holds the tempting fruit to you.\u201d Such references to Eve (according to Christian tradition, Eve was the first woman, who ate the forbidden fruit of knowledge) were used by both supporters and opponents of women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\u201cReferring to Miss Wrights Lecture on Knowledge\u201d \u201cReferring to Miss Wright’s Lecture on Knowledge\u201d “Port Folio” The Literary Register (March 7, 1829, Oxford Ohio), 96. This pseudonymous poem by \u201cPort Folio,\u201d praises Frances Wright, who in 1828 had repeatedly delivered…\n<\/div>\n
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