At some point in the early 1850s, some unspecified event prompted Henry Wood
to withdraw from business. It may be that he lost his job, or went bankrupt: it sounds as if the family were...
Travel
Frances Power Cobbe
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...
Travel
Frances Power Cobbe
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...
Textual Production
Frances Power Cobbe
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.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
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Textual Production
Camilla Crosland
Her other work for periodicals includes a short story, A Railroad Adventure, published in 1843 in Ainsworth's Magazine, as well as pieces in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Bentley's Miscellany, the Illustrated London...
Textual Production
Anna Kingsford
While compaigning for suffrage, AK
owned and edited The Lady's Own Paper for a period of about three months, using her married name, Mrs Algernon Kingsford.
Sources disagree about the length of her editorship (as...
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
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...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Rigby
Scholars Mitchell
and Broomfield
observe that like Kant
before her and Oscar Wilde
after, Eastlake sought to define a realm of human experience to and for which only art could speak, whereas Ruskin believed that...
Textual Features
Dinah Mulock Craik
The female narrator opens her story with an avowal of love for Josephine Scanlan that posits same-sex love as natural for women, and heterosexual love as rarely deserved by men: I have loved a man...
Textual Features
Dinah Mulock Craik
These writings, argues critic Sally Mitchell
, were essentially in the sentimental mode, which sought to educate by promoting habits of good feeling rather than by presenting either rational arguments or deserved punishments.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
79-80
In...
Textual Features
Dinah Mulock Craik
Many of the traits which DMC
promoted both in her girls' and her boys' fiction merge into a single-sex ideal, argues Mitchell
, who sees all of this work as guiding young readers towards an...
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.
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Textual Features
Dinah Mulock Craik
Her early novels, according to Sally Mitchell
, provide a sampling of the kinds of books that were, at the time, most popular with readers, which attests to her familiarity with the literary landscape of...
Textual Features
Rhoda Broughton
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...
Zierer, Laurie. “Edith Jemima Simcox (1844-1901)”. Prose by Victorian Women, edited by Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell, Garland, 1996, pp. 523-5.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
Mitchell, Sally, and Sarah Grand. “Introduction”. The Beth Book, Thoemmes, 1994, p. v - xxiv.
Rigby, Elizabeth. “Modern Painters”. Prose By Victorian Women, edited by Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell, Garland, 1996, pp. 82-136.
Rigby, Elizabeth. “Photography”. Prose by Victorian Women, edited by Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell, Garland, 1996, pp. 138-65.
Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland, 1996.
Cook, Bernard A. “Strikes”. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, edited by Sally Mitchell, Garland Press, 1988, pp. 764-6.
Mitchell, Sally. The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class and Women’s Reading 1835-1880. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981.
Maunder, Andrew, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Varieties of Women’s Sensation Fiction, 1855-1880. Vol. 6 vols., Pickering and Chatto.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
Garlick, Barbara. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Editor Mitchell, Sally, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988, p. 837.
Simcox, Edith J. “Women’s Work and Women’s Wages”. Prose by Victorian Women, edited by Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell, Garland, 1996, pp. 566-82.
