Annie Denton Cridge

Annie Denton Cridge (1825–1875) was a UK-born American spiritualist, political reformer, lecturer, and writer. Cridge had great interest in women's rights, politics, and spiritualism. She helped produce a radical newspaper The Vanguard. The utopian feminist novel she wrote in 1870, Man's Rights, or how would you like it? Comprising dreams, is said to be the first utopian novel written by a woman. As well, she assisted in the high-profile literary and political work of several family members - her husband Alfred Cridge, her brother William Denton, and her son Alfred Denton Cridge.