Tribute to Lafayette and Fanny Wright, sponsored by Alliance Francaise de Cincinnati, OH

Tue May 20 2025 at 10:30 am to 12:30 pm UTC-04:00

Spring Grove Funeral Homes, Cemetery & Arboretum | Cincinnati

The American Friends of Lafayette
Publisher/HostThe American Friends of Lafayette
Tribute to Lafayette and Fanny Wright, sponsored by Alliance Francaise de Cincinnati, OH
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May 20, 2025 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm, reception to follow
Tribute to Lafayette and Fanny Wright, sponsored by Alliance Francaise de Cincinnati, OH
Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, 4521 Spring Grove Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45232
Join us for a tribute to Frances “Fanny” Wright, a thought-leader of her time but sometimes-forgotten figure who was a close friend of Lafayette and influenced his belief in equality between men and women. Fanny was an independent lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, and social reformer who shared Lafayette’s commitment to the abolition of slavery. She was born in Scotland in 1795, was invited by Lafayette to join him on his Farewell Tour of America, became a US citizen in 1825, and died in Cincinnati in 1852 where she is laid to rest in Spring Grove Cemetery.
Tristra Yeager and Eleanor Rust, Co-producers of the Frances Wright podcast, Julien Icher, President and founder of The Lafayette Trail, Inc., Chuck Schwam, Executive Director of the American Friends of Lafayette, an AFL Lafayette interpreter and a Fanny Wright interpreter will speak in the Rose Garden gazebo.
Following their presentations, we will visit Fanny's grave to lay flowers and read the inscriptions on her monument. A reception sponsored by the Alliance Francaise will follow (location tbd).
More detailed information and a website link will be added in January.
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Spring Grove Funeral Homes, Cemetery & Arboretum, 4521 Spring Grove Ave,Cincinnati, United States

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