Born in Clonbeg, Co. Tipperary in 1785, daughter of a Protestant Archbishop, Anna Doyle was educated at home and married at sixteen. Her marriage to Francis Massey Wheeler was unhappy and she left after twelve years, taking her two surviving children; Rosina and Harriet. Anna had taken refuge in reading during her marriage, she studied many French Philosophers and Mary Wollstonecraft's feminist works. After moving to London she became part of a circle of writers and philosophers including Robert Owen, John Stuart Mill and Frances Wright. Anna sent her daughter Rosina to be educated at Mrs Rowden's school in Kensington. Anna moved to France in the 1820s where she met Charles Fourier and began to translate his works into English. She becomes a contributor to Tribune de Femme a journal established by working class women. She also collaborated with William Thompson on his book Appeal of One Half of the Human Race (1825) she also wrote The Rights of Women (1830) and Letter from Vlasta (1833) She began to suffer ill health in the 1840s and died in 1848. You can read more about her in Dolores Dooley's essay in Women Power and Conciousness Attic Press 1995.
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