Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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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, 2004. 330 |
politics | Sophia Jex-Blake | She aimed to establish credibility for a female medical college by gathering an impressive group of physicians. They included the editor of the British Medical Journal, Ernest Hart
, Thomas Henry Huxley
, Dr... |
Reception | Julia Frankau | The novel caused scandal both to Jewish readers, who judged it anti-semitic, and to gentile readers, who found its treatment of sex outside marriage too outspoken. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Textual Features | Julia Frankau | Stephen Lock
suggests in his introduction to the 1989 reprint that this novel is à clef: that JF
's Phillips (whose name, before the publisher suggested a change, was Dr Abrams) was modelled on Ernest Abraham Hart |