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.
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