Sally Mitchell

In 1900 Mudie's Library stocked all of JK 's novels, but not until after the mid twentieth century did scholars cease to see her works chiefly as domestic, ladylike, and safe. Those who do mention...

Sally Mitchell characterizes it as embarrassing to read owing to its sentimentality, but argues that the idealized portrait of a crippled man whose noble life it delineates makes physical disability a powerful figure for...

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...

Sally Mitchell judges this novel to be largely conventional and undistinguished, remarkable only for the representations of drunkenness and wife abuse, and because, near the end, the model wife says that it is necessary under...

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...

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...

According to Sally Mitchell , FPC herself recognized that her writing had lost its wit and charm as she became immersed in the antivivisectionist cause. Charges of inaccuracy in her antivivisection writing came to...

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.

She started writing this novel in 1895 and finished it by September 1897.Elaine Showalter wrote the introduction to Virago 's 1980 edition, and Sally Mitchell wrote that of Thoemmes , 1994.

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...

Victorian scholar Sally Mitchell suggests that the existing national secondary education system available to young women owes much of its development to MG 's selfless work.

The book was immediately successful in England and the United States.Sally Mitchell remarks that it produced a huge expansion in the audience for fiction: The book helped to overcome the resistance to fiction...

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. In...

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...

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...