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FRANCES POWER COBBE
VICTORIAN FEMINIST, JOURNALIST, REFORMER |
| By: |
Sally Mitchell |
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Hardback |
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£46.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813922712 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813922713 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
29 May, 2004 |
| Series: |
Victorian Literature and Culture Series |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) was one of the most important 19th century British writers and activists. She worked to improve conditions for delinquent girls and for the sick poor, promoted university degrees for women and roused support for the Union during the American Civil War. This is her biography. |
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Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) is the most important nineteenth-century British writer and activist not heretofore treated in a full-length biography. An independent professional woman, she worked to improve conditions for delinquent girls and for the sick poor, promoted university degrees for women, roused support for the Union during the American Civil War, advocated for victims of marital violence, campaigned for women's suffrage, and engaged in a long-running battle with leading physicians decrying the use of animals in medical experiments. She was centrally located among the circle of London intellectuals who engaged the era's significant debates and was a respected religious and moral thinker as well. Bridging the gap between "high" and "low" journalism, she published in prestigious journals as well as in popular monthly magazines. At long last, Sally Mitchell gives this remarkable woman her due. The only source of information about Cobbe's life has been her 1894 autobiography--and even that is considered by many scholars to be less than forthcoming. Over the past several years, Mitchell has unearthed extensive material by or related to Cobbe. |
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Illustrations, map, ports. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University of Virginia Press |
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