Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer

by Sally Mitchell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813922712
• ISBN13: 9780813922713
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher