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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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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 of Godiva's Ride: Women of Letters in England, 1830-1880

Frances Power Cobbe Victorian Feminist

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      Publisher: MP-VIR Uni of Virginia
      Publication Date: 5/29/2004 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813922713, 978-0813922713
      ISBN10: 0813922712
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      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 of Godiva's Ride: Women of Letters in England, 1830-1880

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