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).

"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

• Acknowledgements Victorian Feminism and the Periodical Press 'She and I have Lived Together': Women's Celibacy and Signature in Cobbe's Early Writing The 'Force' of Sentiment: Married Women's Property and the Idea of Marriage in Fraser's Magazine 'Speaking in Fleet Street': The Feminist Politics of the Editorial in the London Echo , 1868-1875 Making History with France Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminism, Domestic Violence and the Language of Imperialism 'A Crisis in Woman's History': Duties of Women and the Practice of Everyday Feminism Notes to Chapters Bibliography Index