Wheeler, Anna, approximately 1785-1848
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Wheeler, Anna, b. ca. 1785
Doyle, Anna, approximately 1785-1848
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found: Appeal of one half the human race, women, 1994:t.p. (Anna Wheeler) p. vii, etc. (b. approx. 1785)
found: Dooley, D. Equality in community, 1996:t.p. (Anna Doyle Wheeler) p. 56 (1785-18--?)
found: Hypatia, spring 1989:pages 91-94 (Anna Doyle Wheeler (1785-1848), philosopher, socialist, feminist; born to an Anglican family of Clonbeg Parish in County Tipperary, Ireland; was fifteen in 1800; married Francis Massey Wheeler in 1800) - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3809936
found: Wikipedia, viewed August 25, 2020(Anna Wheeler (c. 1780 - 1848), also known by her maiden name of Anna Doyle, was an Irish born British writer and advocate of political rights for women and the benefits of contraception. She married Francis Massey Wheeler when she was "about 16" and he was "about 19", although the year is not known. They separated twelve years later. Anna Doyle was the daughter of the Rev. Nicholas Milley Doyle, a Church of Ireland clergyman, Rector of Newcastle, County Tipperary. She lived principally in London, Dublin, Caen, and Paris) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Wheeler_(author)
found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography website, viewed August 25, 2020(Wheeler (née Doyle), Anna (1785?-1848), philosopher, born in co. Tipperary, Ireland, was the daughter of Anna Dunbar and her husband, Nicholas Milley Doyle, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and prebendary of Fennor parish in co. Tipperary. In 1800, despite her mother's opposition, she married Francis Massy Wheeler (1781-1820), a wealthy squire from Ballywire, co. Limerick. Exhausted by marital acrimony, in 1812 Wheeler decided to leave her alcoholic husband. With her daughters, Henrietta and Rosina, and her spinster sister Bessie, she sailed to the island of Guernsey, where her uncle General Sir John Doyle (1750-1834) was governor. She died at 51 High Street, Camden Town, London, on 7 May 1848) - https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/46577
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1995-10-13: new
2025-08-05: revised
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