Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Sally Mitchell
Standard Name: Mitchell, Sally
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Edith J. Simcox | As noted by Laurie Zierer
in Broomfield
and Mitchell
's anthology of Victorian women writers, EJS
's connection with George Eliot
has saved her from permanent obscurity, [but] her stature as a Victorian writer and... |
| Literary responses | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Sally Mitchell
, in her encyclopedia of Victorian Britain, praises BRP
as providing an indispensable introduction to the activities, ideology, and atmosphere of the early years of the middle-class women's movement. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988. |
| Literary responses | Sarah Grand | Feminists, social reformers, and literary men, such as Mark Twain
, George Meredith
, and George Bernard Shaw
, greeted this novel with excitement and appreciation. Mitchell, Sally, and Sarah Grand. “Introduction”. The Beth Book, Thoemmes, 1994, p. v - xxiv. vi |
| 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... |
| 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, 2004. 362-3 |
| Publishing | Sarah Grand | She started writing this novel in 1895 and finished it by September 1897. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 2. Editor Forward, Stephanie, Routledge, 2000. 46, 59-60 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Reception | Maria Grey | Victorian scholar Sally Mitchell
suggests that the existing national secondary education system available to young women owes much of its development to MG
's selfless work. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988. |
| Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | The book was immediately successful in England and the United States. Kaplan, Cora, and Dinah Mulock Craik. “Introduction”. Olive; and, The Half-Caste, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xxv. xi |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
's story is an allegory to the extent that it spans the period 1795-1834, from the year after the Reign of Terror ended, at a high point in enclosure of common land, to just... |
| Textual Features | Julia Kavanagh | It features a male protagonist, but critic Sally Mitchell
notes that even here Kavanagh pursues her favorite topic of a lively girl eventually loved by a man who once viewed her as a child. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988. |
| Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | This original fairy tale features the Prince Dolor, who is crippled as an infant, deprived of his rule by a Prince Regent uncle, and brought up in miserable conditions. A fairy godmother gives him a... |
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