Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism

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).

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.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.