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Frances Power Cobbe

Victorian feminist, journalist, reformer

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An edition of Frances Power Cobbe (2004)

Frances Power Cobbe

Victorian feminist, journalist, reformer

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"Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) is an important nineteenth-century British writer and activist not heretofore treated in a full-length biography. An independent professional woman, she worked to improve conditions for delinquent girls and for the sick poor, promoted university degrees for women, roused support for the Union during the American Civil War, advocated for victims of marital violence, campaigned for women's suffrage, and engaged in a long-running battle with leading physicians decrying the use of animals in medical experiments. She was centrally located among the circle of London intellectuals who engaged the era's significant debates and was a respected religious and moral thinker as well. Bridging the gap between "high" and "low" journalism, she published in prestigious journals as well as in popular monthly magazines." "The only source of information about Cobbe's life has been her 1894 autobiography - and even that is considered by many scholars to be less than forthcoming. Over the past several years, Mitchell has unearthed extensive material by or related to Cobbe, dramatically increasing and updating the information now available about this major figure in social and literary history. She has transcribed hundreds of Cobbe's unpublished letters, drawn on archival papers and records for information about Cobbe's family and places where she lived and worked, and supplemented all the newly available material with instructive selections from Cobbe's anonymous journalism as well as other publications. Further, through the cooperation of Cobbe's heirs, Mitchell has been able to use significant materials that remain in private hands, including family letters and account books, a diary Cobbe's father kept during her first thirty-four years, a manuscript account of her 1858 journey to Egypt and Palestine, and a number of Cobbe's sketchbooks and photograph albums." "A narrative biography, Frances Power Cobbe traces the details of Cobbe's life and work, analyzes her writing, and sets both in the context of the social and intellectual debates of her time."--BOOK JACKET.

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463

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Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian feminist, journalist, reformer
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Table of Contents

A child well born
Childhood, girlhood, school, 1827-1838
Young lady in training, 1839-1845
The family heretic, 1845-1857
Travel alone, 1857-1858
From winter into summer, 1859-1864
Mary Lloyd
At home in London, 1865-1868
Working woman scribbler, 1869-1874
Parliamentary politics, 1875-1878
Battles for the unrepresented, 1879-1884
Tilting at windmills, 1884-1892
The oldest new woman, 1893-1904.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-439) and index.

Published in
Charlottesville
Series
Victorian literature and culture series
Genre
Biography.

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Dewey Decimal Class
070.92, B
Library of Congress
PR4461.C3 Z78 2004

The Physical Object

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xiii, 463 p. :
Number of pages
463

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3679721M
ISBN 10
0813922712
LCCN
2003022365
Library Thing
7675536
Goodreads
3336006

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