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218 She wore her hair short, waving slightly. Her features were all good, and the smile sweet, with a touch of feminine sadness; eyes well set under the broad brows. She was pale, but not sallow, and there was an earnestness and wholesomeness about Fanny Wright that made their way to the mind and heart. The lecture was entirely political, and very democratic. She was at intervals applauded, but did not seem to expect or care for it. Her self-poise was very fine. She was at home on her subject, and did not beat the air with vain efforts to say what was but half-digested in her own mind.”

Mrs. Trollope heard her lecture in Philadelphia in 1830, when she was accompanied on to the platform of the Arch-street Theater by a body-guard of Quaker ladies dressed in the peculiar costume of that sect. Her strong anti-slavery proclivities and labors, doubtless, won for her this singular honor.

From 1828 until 1838, her record is one of unceasing arduous public work. Even