During the 1880s CB
studied privately at the library of the British Museum
. At this time, Richard Garnett was the superintendent of the Reading Room. She became friends with him and his family, and...
Textual Features
Rhoda Broughton
This conclusion is a new one, which RB
produced in significantly revising the serialised version of Not Wisely for volume publication. In the last volume Dare Stamer is injured on his way to a ball...
Literary responses
Rhoda Broughton
Twentieth-century critics, like Sally Mitchell
in The Fallen Angel, point to the novel's interrogation of gender roles. Mitchell argues that Not Wisely, but Too Wellwas shocking not because the heroine fell but because...
Literary responses
Frances Power Cobbe
FPC
's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold
thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time...
Reception
Frances Power Cobbe
Mitchell
's Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer, 2004, is a superbly detailed source on FPC
's life and on Victorian feminism generally. Interest is slowly growing in her role and that of...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Power Cobbe
She seems never to have wished to attain the prescribed female roles of wife and mother—having noticed that several women she knew were liable to Bad-Husband Headaches—and biographer Sally Mitchell
finds no evidence of...
Travel
Frances Power Cobbe
A week after her father's funeral, FPC
cut her hair to enable herself to travel without a maid. By December she was in London, where she applied for a passport. Her biographer Sally Mitchell
attributes...
Travel
Frances Power Cobbe
When FPC
descended into the Great Pyramid at Giza as the sole European attended by five guides, they demanded more money than had been agreed. Instead of complying, she angrily ordered them to escort her...
Other Life Event
Frances Power Cobbe
Biographer Sally Mitchell
attributes the event to tensions between her and the local Welsh people among whom she had settled. FPC
spent that winter at Clifton, near Bristol.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
362-3
Textual Production
Frances Power Cobbe
In 1849 FPC
produced a lengthy manuscript titled An Essay on True Religion Being a reply to the question Why are you a Deist? Critic Sally Mitchell
compares it to a competent doctoral thesis.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
73
Literary responses
Frances Power Cobbe
Of a much later work, The Friend of Man; and His Friends,—the Poets, 1889, produced on the heels of much anti-vivisection writing, scholar Sally Mitchell
comments that FPCtried to accomplish for dogs what...
Literary responses
Frances Power Cobbe
Biographer Sally Mitchell
describes the essay on Lowe as a virulent and often sarcastic attack on the medical profession for meddling with legislation. She notes that it begins the obsessively picky argumentation that makes the...
Literary responses
Frances Power Cobbe
This provoked a reply from FPC
's former ally William Carpenter
, who identified her as the author and criticised her pronouncements on science as uninformed, implying that her judgement was not being led by...
Literary responses
Frances Power Cobbe
According to Sally Mitchell
, FPC
herself recognized that her writing had lost its wit and charm
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
330
as she became immersed in the antivivisectionist cause. Charges of inaccuracy in her antivivisection writing came to...
Zierer, Laurie. “Edith Jemima Simcox (1844-1901)”. Prose by Victorian Women, edited by Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell, Garland, 1996, pp. 523-5.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
Mitchell, Sally, and Sarah Grand. “Introduction”. The Beth Book, Thoemmes, 1994, p. v - xxiv.
Rigby, Elizabeth. “Modern Painters”. Prose By Victorian Women, edited by Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell, Garland, 1996, pp. 82-136.
Rigby, Elizabeth. “Photography”. Prose by Victorian Women, edited by Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell, Garland, 1996, pp. 138-65.
Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland, 1996.
Cook, Bernard A. “Strikes”. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, edited by Sally Mitchell, Garland Press, 1988, pp. 764-6.
Mitchell, Sally. The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class and Women’s Reading 1835-1880. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981.
Maunder, Andrew, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Varieties of Women’s Sensation Fiction, 1855-1880. Vol. 6 vols., Pickering and Chatto.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
Garlick, Barbara. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Editor Mitchell, Sally, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988, p. 837.
Simcox, Edith J. “Women’s Work and Women’s Wages”. Prose by Victorian Women, edited by Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell, Garland, 1996, pp. 566-82.
