Anna Wheeler’s Life
The country where Anna Wheeler was born.
What is Ireland?
The legal doctrine that erased a married woman’s legal identity under her husband.
What is coverture?
The major book Wheeler and Thompson published together in 1825.
What is “The Appeal”?
The abusive husband whose behavior shaped Wheeler’s early understanding of women’s oppression.
Who is Francis Massy-Wheeler?
The political right women did not have in early 19th-century Britain.
What is the right to vote?
Thompson referred to The Appeal as this type of project, since Wheeler shaped much of the content.
What is a “joint work”?
The major European city where Wheeler joined intellectual salons and met radical thinkers.
What is Paris?
Under marriage laws, the wages a married woman earned legally belonged to this person.
Who is her husband?
Wheeler and Thompson wrote The Appeal in response to this philosopher who said women didn’t need the vote.
Who is James Mill?
One key thinker who influenced Wheeler’s ideas about women’s rights?
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft / Jeremy Bentham / Charles Fourier?
A kind of contract or legal document women often could not sign.
What is a legal contract (or a will)?
The Appeal argued that this institution, typically between one man and one woman, was a “contract of domination.”
What is marriage?
Wheeler described women’s treatment under patriarchy with this phrase.
What is “domestic slavery”?
One area where girls rarely had opportunities, reinforcing inequality.
What is education?
Wheeler believed this was the key to women’s freedom
What is education?