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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 | Dinah Mulock Craik | 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... |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dinah Mulock Craik | Sally Mitchell
compares The Head of the Family to the large-cast family story Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 31 |
Health | Ellen Wood | In 1831 the curvature settled and ceased to give her pain. It left her, however, permanently weakened, and eventually contributed to her death through pressure on her vital organs. Sally Mitchell
notes that as an... |
Friends, Associates | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock met several notable literary figures, such as the dramatists George
and Maria Lovell
, poet Eliza Leslie
, and Mr
and Mrs Samuel Carter Hall
. At parties given by Anna Maria Hall... |
Friends, Associates | Clementina Black | During the 1880s CB
studied privately at the library of the British Museum
. At this time, |
Friends, Associates | Anna Kingsford | 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. 285 |
Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | In the years leading up to her marriage, Camilla Toulmin and Dinah Mulock Craik
were good friends (Craik was one of her bridesmaids); however, Craik's biographer Sally Mitchell
mentions Crosland only briefly. Newton Crosland
posits... |
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... |
Anthologization | Vernon Lee | VL
also published An Essay on Art and Life (1896), Limbo, and Other Essays (1897), and Hortus Vitae, Essays on the Gardening of Life (1903). Mannocchi, Phyllis. “’Vernon Lee’: A Reintroduction and Primary Bibliography”. English Literature in Transition, Vol. 26 , No. 4, pp. 231-67. 240-2 |
Anthologization | Vernon Lee | The title piece first appeared in the Contemporary Review in July 1898. It was reprinted in Andrea Broomfield
's and Sally Mitchell
's Prose by Victorian Women, 1996. Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland. 711-29 |
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