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.
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 Oxford University named after Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , was founded.