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in central London, gave her the pulpit to speak on "The Rights of Women". In this address of 1829, Wheeler forensically refuted arguments for male superiority and encouraged women to work together to create an organisation "to obtain... the removal of the disabilities of women and the introduction of
151:, County Tipperary. She had no formal education, but learned French, geography, reading and writing at home. In 1795, at about the age of fifteen, she married Francis Massey Wheeler, of Lizard Connell, heir to an estate at Ballywire, who proposed to her at a ball. Born in 1776, and a grandson of
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Appeal of One Half of the Human Race, Women, Against the
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Appeal of One Half of the Human Race, Women, Against the
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A staunch advocate of political rights for women and of equal opportunities in education, Wheeler was a friend of the French feminists and socialists
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A staunch advocate of political rights for women and equal opportunities in education, she was friendly with French feminists and socialists.
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protester, hunger striker and writer, and a third, Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton, dismayed her parents by successfully proposing to the architect
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a national system of equal education for the Infants of both sexes."
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