Anna Blackwell (1816 - 1900)

Anna Blackwell was a British-American author, poet, and translator and a dedicated Spiritualist. In 1845, she lived as a member of the Brook Farm utopian community in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, afterward moving to France. She translated the works of the French socialist Fourier and the novels of Georges Sand, among others. Anna was committed to bringing Spiritualism into the mainstream. Writing in both English and French, Anna widely espoused her philosophy in published essays, articles, booklets, and poetry.