Frances Wright (September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852) also widely known as Fanny Wright, is a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer, who becomes a U. S. citizen in 1825.

That year she founds the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee as a utopian community to prepare slaves for emancipation, intending to create an egalitarian place, but it lasts only three years.

Her Views of Society and Manners in America (1821) brings her the most attention as a critique of the new nation.