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Caroline Frances Cornwallis
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Standard Name: Cornwallis, Caroline Frances
Pseudonym: A Pariah
Pseudonym: A Few Well-Wishers to Knowledge
Pseudonym: Thomas Brown Redivivus
Pseudonym: C. F. C.
Indexed Name: C. F. Cornwallis
Small Books on Great Subjects popularized scientific and technical knowledge, and addressed social concerns. The most common theme in her writing was that of proper Christian practices framed by a logical, philosophical context. She is most remembered for her two articles published in The Westminster Review on The Property of Married Women and Capabilities and Disabilities of Women. Both demonstrate her use of research and rhetoric to advocate for women's rights. She was passionate about educational reform for women and for the poor. She published a single novel, the historical Pericles; she also translated from several languages into English poems that remained unpublished until after her death.
was a prolific writer and scholar. Her anonymous, collaborative twenty-volume series Timeline
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Texts
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. A Brief View of Greek Philosophy from the Age of Socrates to the Coming of Christ. William Pickering, 1844.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. A Brief View of Greek Philosophy up to the Age of Pericles. William Pickering, 1844.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. An Exposition of Vulgar and Common Errors Adapted to the Year of Grace MDCCCXLV. William Pickering, 1845.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. An Introduction to Practical Organic Chemistry. William Pickering, 1843.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “Capabilities and Disabilities of Women”. The Westminster Review, Vol.
67
, Leonard Scott & Co., pp. 23-40. Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Christian Doctrine and Practice in the Second Century. William Pickering, 1844.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Christian Doctrine and Practice in the Twelfth Century. William Pickering, 1850.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century. William Pickering, 1846.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. General Principles of Grammar. William Pickering, 1847.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “History of the House of Savoy”. The Westminster Review, Vol.
65
, John Chapman, pp. 51-90. Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “Naval Education”. Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, Vol.
56
, p. 318. Cornwallis, Caroline Frances, and John Barlow. On Man’s Power Over Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity. William Pickering, 1843.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. On The Principles of Criminal Law. William Pickering, 1846.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. On the State of Man Before the Promulgation of Christianity. William Pickering, 1848.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. On the State of Man Subsequent to the Promulgation of Christianity. William Pickering, 1854, 4 vols.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Pericles. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846, 2 vols.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience. William Pickering, 1841.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co., 1864.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “Self-Education”. The Westminster Review, Vol.
64
, John Chapman, pp. 73-94. Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Sketches of Geology. William Pickering, 1848.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances, and John Barlow. The Connection Between Physiology and Intellectual Philosophy. William Pickering, 1842.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. The Philosophy of Ragged Schools. William Pickering, 1851.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “The Property of Married Women”. The Westminster Review, Vol.
65
, Leonard Scott & Co., pp. 181-97. Hill, Micaiah, and Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Two Prize Essays on Juvenile Deliquency. Smith, Elder and Co., 1853.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “Wycliffe and His Times”. The Westminster Review, Vol.
62
, pp. 145-73.