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Sally Mitchell - Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) - 9780813922713 - V9780813922713
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Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)

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Description for Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) Hardcover. 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. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: BGH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 850.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813922713
SKU
V9780813922713
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Reviews for Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Written in a clear, simple, attractive, and unpretentious style, Frances Power Cobbe includes much information that is unexpected and very interesting, about such matters as the weird Utopian religious colony, the Agapemone, which one of her brothers joined; illegitimate children; divorce; mixed-race marriage; women's suffrage and other feminist political causes; and the tribulations of the anti-vivisectionist societies.
Dorothy Mermin, author ... Read more

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