Anna Doyle Wheeler was a revolutionary democrat and feminist in the early nineteenth century. Widely read in radical social and political theory, she was primarily influenced by the French socialists Claude-Henri de Rouvron, Comte de Saint-Simon, and Charles Fourier, later advocating the cooperative principles of the English socialist Robert Owen. She was also involved in an unsuccessful attempt to unite the followers of Owen, Saint-Simon, and Fourier into one international movement. Though she never wrote a comprehensive account of her political and social thought, the Appeal of One-Half of the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery (1825), written in collaboration with her longtime friend and fellow socialist William Thompson, is the first text to demand votes for women and the first substantial delineation of a socialist feminist position, arguing for the necessary...