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Description:“Pardon me; I must seem to you so stupid! Why is the property of the woman who commits Murder, and the property of the woman who commits Matrimony, dealt with alike by your law?”So ends the “little allegory” in conversational form with which Frances Power Cobbe opens the 1868 essay that gives this collection its title. Cobbe was a widely read essayist of remarkable lucidity and power; her pieces display incisive wit and remarkable focus as she returns repeatedly to “the woman question,” but it was typical of the time that when Cobbe died she was described in the Wellesley Index to Victorian periodicals as a “miscellaneous writer.”Cobbe was not alone; as much as 15 per cent of the essays in Victorian periodicals were written by women, yet even the best of these pieces were allowed by the male-dominated world of scholarship to disappear from print. This anthology makes available again some of the best Victorian writing by women.The second edition has been revised and updated; additions include a chronology and an essay by Frances Power Cobbe on the education of women."This is an indispensable collection. It is one of the most imaginative and useful anthologies to be published in the last decade." -- Joanne Shattock, University of LeicesterContents:ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONCHRONOLOGYA NOTE ON THE TEXTANNA BROWNELL JAMESON (1794-1860) “The Milliners” Biographical NoteHARRIET MARTINEAU (1802-1876) “Female Industry” Biographical NoteFRANCES POWER COBBE (1822-1904) “Celibacy v. Marriage” “‘What Shall We Do with Our Old Maids?’” “The Education of Women, and How it Would be Affected by University Examinations” “‘Criminals, Idiots, Women, And Minors’” “Wife-torture in England” Biographical NoteELIZA LYNN LINTON (1822-1898) “The Girl of the Period” “The Modern Revolt” “The Wild Women: as Politicians” “The Wild Women: as Social Insurgents” Biographical NoteMARGARET OLIPHANT (1828-1897) “The Condition of Women” “The Grievances of Women” Biographical NoteHELEN TAYLOR (1831-1907) “Women and Criticism” Biographical NoteMILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT (1847-1929) “The Emancipation of Women” Biographical NoteMONA CAIRD (1854-1932) “Marriage” “A Defence of the So-called ‘Wild Women’” Biographical NoteWorks Cited and Recommended ReadingWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Criminals, Idiots, Women, & Minors: Victorian Writing by Women on Women. To get started finding Criminals, Idiots, Women, & Minors: Victorian Writing by Women on Women, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: “Pardon me; I must seem to you so stupid! Why is the property of the woman who commits Murder, and the property of the woman who commits Matrimony, dealt with alike by your law?”So ends the “little allegory” in conversational form with which Frances Power Cobbe opens the 1868 essay that gives this collection its title. Cobbe was a widely read essayist of remarkable lucidity and power; her pieces display incisive wit and remarkable focus as she returns repeatedly to “the woman question,” but it was typical of the time that when Cobbe died she was described in the Wellesley Index to Victorian periodicals as a “miscellaneous writer.”Cobbe was not alone; as much as 15 per cent of the essays in Victorian periodicals were written by women, yet even the best of these pieces were allowed by the male-dominated world of scholarship to disappear from print. This anthology makes available again some of the best Victorian writing by women.The second edition has been revised and updated; additions include a chronology and an essay by Frances Power Cobbe on the education of women."This is an indispensable collection. It is one of the most imaginative and useful anthologies to be published in the last decade." -- Joanne Shattock, University of LeicesterContents:ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONCHRONOLOGYA NOTE ON THE TEXTANNA BROWNELL JAMESON (1794-1860) “The Milliners” Biographical NoteHARRIET MARTINEAU (1802-1876) “Female Industry” Biographical NoteFRANCES POWER COBBE (1822-1904) “Celibacy v. Marriage” “‘What Shall We Do with Our Old Maids?’” “The Education of Women, and How it Would be Affected by University Examinations” “‘Criminals, Idiots, Women, And Minors’” “Wife-torture in England” Biographical NoteELIZA LYNN LINTON (1822-1898) “The Girl of the Period” “The Modern Revolt” “The Wild Women: as Politicians” “The Wild Women: as Social Insurgents” Biographical NoteMARGARET OLIPHANT (1828-1897) “The Condition of Women” “The Grievances of Women” Biographical NoteHELEN TAYLOR (1831-1907) “Women and Criticism” Biographical NoteMILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT (1847-1929) “The Emancipation of Women” Biographical NoteMONA CAIRD (1854-1932) “Marriage” “A Defence of the So-called ‘Wild Women’” Biographical NoteWorks Cited and Recommended ReadingWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Criminals, Idiots, Women, & Minors: Victorian Writing by Women on Women. To get started finding Criminals, Idiots, Women, & Minors: Victorian Writing by Women on Women, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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