According to Cobbe's biographer Sally Mitchell
, Kingsford asked Cobbe, after her return to London from Paris, to sponsor her for membership in the Somerville Club
, the first woman's club, then recently founded.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
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politics
Constance Naden
She was a Liberal (who canvassed for the Gladstone
supporter George Granville Leveson-Gower
when he stood—unsuccessfully—for East Marylebone in 1889), a supporter of Irish Home Rule, a member of the Somerville Club
for women, and...
