Frances Power Cobbe recounts her childhood in an Anglo-Irish landed family, her religious doubts and theism, her travels, her journalism in London, and her campaigns for women’s rights and against vivisection, which she pursued against the leading scientists of her day. Blanche Atkinson’s introduction completes the story to Cobbe’s death in 1904.
A long, lively autobiography of one of the most energetic Victorian reformers. Download the free EPUB.