Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism

1. Front Matter

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2. Victorian Feminism and the Periodical Press

   • Susan Hamilton

   Pages 1-23

3. ‘She and I have Lived Together’: women’s celibacy and signature in Cobbe’s early writing

   • Susan Hamilton

   Pages 25-60

4. The ‘force’ of sentiment: Married Women’s Property and the ideal of marriage in Fraser’s Magazine

   • Susan Hamilton

   Pages 61-93

5. ‘Speaking in Fleet Street’: the feminist politics of the editorial in the London Echo, 1868–1875

   • Susan Hamilton

   Pages 95-124

6. Making History with Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian feminism, domestic violence, and the language of imperialism

   • Susan Hamilton

   Pages 125-143

7. ‘A Crisis in Woman’s History’: Duties of Women and the practice of everyday feminism

   • Susan Hamilton

   Pages 145-171

8. Back Matter

   Pages 173-203

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This new book asks a key question- what did it mean to have a Victorian feminist write for an established newspaper or periodical? Using the example of Frances Power Cobbe, it focuses on Victorian feminism and its political workings, and urges us to reconsider what feminism looked like in the nineteenth-century.

• bibliography
• crisis
• feminism
• France
• history
• history of literature
• imperialism
• knowledge
• politics
• press
• Victorian era
• violence
• women
• writing
• British and Irish Literature

"Hamilton's is a highly readable, focused monograph that illuminats the history and metahistory of feminism, the active presence (rather than lurking marginality) of feminist discourse in the mainstream press, and Cobbe's verve, skill, and power as a writer." - Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian University

SUSAN HAMILTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her work has appeared in such journals as Victorian Studies, Women's History Review, Topia and Nineteenth Century Prose. She is editor of Animal Welfare and Anti-Vivisection (Routledge) and Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors (Broadview).

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