[AMERICANA] - Miss Wright. - Lot 7

[AMERICANA] - Miss Wright. Voyage aux Etats-unis d'Amérique ou observations sur la société, les moeurs, les usages et le gouvernement de ce pays, recueillies en 1818, 1819 et 1820, translated from the English on the second edition, by J.-T. Parisot. Paris, Éditeur Béchet et Arthus Bertrand, 1822, 2 volumes in 8°, xiv, 351; (vi), 359 pp, ochre bradel boards, red titles (antique binding). Slight wear to two covers. Dedicated by Parisot to General Lafayette; ex libris Albt. Insinger. Frances Wright was born (1795 - 1852) into a wealthy family close to the ideas of the physiocrats and the French Revolution. She made her first trip to the United States at the age of 23, in 1818. She made a second trip in 1824 in the company of La Fayette, whose mistress she had become. Known for her political commitments to the utopian socialists and the abolitionist movement.