Frances Conway Cobbe

Standard Name: Cobbe, Frances Conway

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Power Cobbe
FPC 's mother died; she was seventy, though Frances was still in her early twenties.
Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin, 1894, 2 vols.
1: 88
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
69
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Power Cobbe
FPC 's mother, born Frances Conway , was the daughter of Captain Thomas Conway and of Sophia von Schramm , a woman of French and German background.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
18
Frances Conway was forty-five years old when...
Instructor Frances Power Cobbe
FPC received lessons from her nurse Martha Jones and from her mother . Her reading included Sarah Trimmer 's History of the Robins, Anna Barbauld 's Lessons for Children, and poetry by Jane Taylor

Timeline

4 June 1878: Lady Margaret Hall, a women's college at...

Building item

4 June 1878

Lady Margaret Hall , a women's college at Oxford University named after Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , was founded.
Grier, Miss L. “Women’s Education at Oxford”. Handbook to the University of Oxford, Clarendon, 1956, pp. 291-9.
291-2
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Keene, Anne. “Mothers of the House”. Oxford Today, Vol.
15
, No. 2, 2003, pp. 29-31.
29, 30
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
268

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