12 Facts About Flora Tristan

Flore Celestine Therese Henriette Tristan y Moscoso, better known as Flora Tristan, was a French-Peruvian writer and socialist activist.

Flora Tristan made important contributions to early feminist theory, and argued that the progress of women's rights was directly related with the progress of the working class.

Flora Tristan wrote several works, the best known of which are Peregrinations of a Pariah, Promenades in London, and The Workers' Union.

Flora Tristan's father, Mariano Eusebio Antonio Tristan y Moscoso, was a colonel of the Spanish Navy, born in Arequipa, a city in Peru.

Flora Tristan's family was one of the most powerful families in the south of the country; his brother Pio de Tristan became viceroy of Peru.

When Flora Tristan's father died in 1807, before her fifth birthday, the family's situation changed drastically from the high standards of living Flora Tristan and her mother were accustomed to.

Around this time, Flora Tristan met and was influenced by the philosophy of the androgynous mystic Simon Ganneau, as well as the occultist writer Eliphas Levi, her longtime friend.

When one traces socialism going together with feminism, Flora Tristan becomes the key person in this amalgamation.

Flora Tristan highlighted themes and ideas that give primacy to worker's rights.

Flora Tristan was the first one to conceive the idea that the emancipation of the proletariat would be the synthesis of the people's struggle against the bourgeoisie.

Flora Tristan organized the fragmented ideas of women's equality at that time, brought by the French Revolution.

Flora Tristan provided the platform for the later rise of feminism in the late 19th century.