Voyage Aux Etats-Unis D'Amerique,: Ou Observations Sur La Societe, Les Moeurs, Les Usages et Le Gouvernement de Ce Pays ... 1818, 1819, 1820. 2 volumes

Paris: Chez Bechet, 1822. First French Language edition. Original Boards. Good. 8vo, xiv, 351; vi, 359 pages, untrimmed in contemporary boards. Very scarce.

Attracted by the ideals of the "Declaration of Independence", Fanny Wright traveled extensively through the U.S.A. tracking how those ideals were being realized. In France, who became almost like a daughter to Gen. Lafayette. She and her sister returned to America, and, with Lafayette, were guests of Jefferson at Monticello. Later, as a U.S. citizen, she founded the Nashoba commune in Tennessee, in anticipation of emancipation. She visited New York and Philadelphia, West Point, Niagara Falls, Lake Errie, and on to Lower Canada, Montreal, Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont, Washington D.C., to Virginia, with many observations along the way. This edition has a dedication to Lafayette by the translator, who also supplied a new translation. Vol. 1 ends with remarks upon Morris Birkbeck's letters about the Illinois country. All in all, Fanny Wright became one of the most remarkable women of the first half of the 19th century: among other accomplishments, being the first woman to write this work, the first travelogue by a woman. [ Howes D74; Sabin 18642; Clark Old South 16; Buck 137]..