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Life
1785-1848 [née Doyle; pseud. “Concordia”]; b. 1 Jan. 1785, Limerick; god-dg. of Henry Grattan; considered the most important feminist between Mary Wollstonecraft and Emmeline Pankhurst; involed with the Owenite socialist movement and translated works of Saint Simon in such journals as The Crisis; collaborated [cp-authored] with William Thompson on Appeal of one Half of the Human Race, Women [... &c.]; d. 31 Dec. 1848; Emily Bulwer-Lytton was her g-dg.; see further under Thompson [q.v.].
[ More information available at Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present - online. ]
Works
Dolores Dooley, intro., Appeal of one Half of the Human Race, Women, against the Pretentions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain them in Political and thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery ([1825]; Cork UP 1830), pbk. 172pp.; Dooley, Equality in Community: Sexual Equality in the Writings of William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler (Cork UP 1995), 472pp.
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