James Henry Lawrence (1773-1840) was a British writer. He is known for his utopian novel The Empire of the Nairs, or the Rights of Women, which appeared in English in 1811. It was influenced by the political writing of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin.

Life

He was the son of Richard James Lawrence, a slave-owner of Fairfield, Jamaica. He was educated at Eton College,

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