Sally Mitchell

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...

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...

According to Sally Mitchell , FPC herself recognized that her writing had lost its wit and charm as she became immersed in the antivivisectionist cause. Charges of inaccuracy in her antivivisection writing came to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...