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...
Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) is the most important nineteenth-century British writer and activist not heretofore treated in a full-length biogra...
A collection of women's theoretical and critical writing on a variety of topics including aesthetics, race, criminal justice, women's issues, animal rights, trade unions, nationalism, religion, travel, education, and government. Includes one to three articles by each of 16 authors including Mary Rus
A collection of women's theoretical and critical writing on a variety of topics including aesthetics, race, criminal justice, women's issues, animal r...
Presents a complete transcription of The Autobiography of a Shirtmaker, a diary describing the day-to-day activities and private reflections of an independent Victorian woman who succeeded in several arenas usually reserved for men, including business, social reform, and journalism. She comments on
Presents a complete transcription of The Autobiography of a Shirtmaker, a diary describing the day-to-day activities and private reflections of an ind...
Combining literary history with cultural studies and feminist historiography, this text revises standard assumptions about Victorian ideas of history, finding an awareness of and experimentation with gender and genre that prefigure theoretical and scholarly concerns in contemporary women's history.
Combining literary history with cultural studies and feminist historiography, this text revises standard assumptions about Victorian ideas of history,...
This book discusses the figure of the unchaste woman in a wide range of fiction written between 1835 and 1880; serious novels by Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell, Meredith, and George Eliot; popular novels that provided light reading for middle-class women (including books by Dinah Craik, Rhoda Broughton, and Ouida); sensational fiction; propaganda for social reform; and stories in cheap periodicals such as the Family Herald and the London Journal, which reached a different and far wider audience than either serious or popular novels.
This book discusses the figure of the unchaste woman in a wide range of fiction written between 1835 and 1880; serious novels by Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell...
Drawing on fiction, magazines, memoirs and advice manuals, this text explores the emergence of a separate culture of girlhood - the free space between childhood and marriage - in England at the end of the 19th century.
Drawing on fiction, magazines, memoirs and advice manuals, this text explores the emergence of a separate culture of girlhood - the free space between...
