She was drawn into this work through her friendships with Louisa Twining
and Margaret Elliot
, daughter of the Dean of Bristol
.
Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin, 1894, 2 vols.
1: 281, 291
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Frances Power Cobbe
Together Elliot
and Cobbe attempted to make the terminally ill patients of workhouse sick wards more comfortable by bringing better furniture, tea, and magazines and books to the wards. FPC
also managed to persuade the...
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
113-14
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Frances Power Cobbe
Another well-known hymn, written in 1859 and anthologized by A. H. Miles
, begins with the line God draws a cloud over each gleaming morn. Cobbe also wrote verse later in her life, such...
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Texts
Elliot, Margaret, and Frances Power Cobbe. Destitute Incurables in the Workhouses. James Nisbet, 1860.