Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
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Reception | Frances Power Cobbe | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | 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... |
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... |
Other Life Event | Frances Power Cobbe | 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. Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 362-3 |
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. 73 |
Literary responses | Frances Power Cobbe | Of a much later work, The Friend of Man; and His Friends,—the Poets, 1889, produced on the heels of much anti-vivisection writing, scholar Sally Mitchell
comments that FPCtried to accomplish for dogs what... |
Literary responses | Frances Power Cobbe | 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... |
Literary responses | Frances Power Cobbe | 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... |
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. 330 |
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... |
Literary responses | Rhoda Broughton | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Clementina Black | During the 1880s CB
studied privately at the library of the British Museum
. At this time, |
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