Caroline Frances Cornwallis

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Standard Name: Cornwallis, Caroline Frances
Pseudonym: A Pariah
Pseudonym: A Few Well-Wishers to Knowledge
Pseudonym: Thomas Brown Redivivus
Pseudonym: C. F. C.
Indexed Name: C. F. Cornwallis
CFC was a prolific writer and scholar. Her anonymous, collaborative twenty-volume series Small Books on Great Subjects popularized scientific and technical knowledge, and addressed social concerns. The most common theme in her writing was that of proper Christian practices framed by a logical, philosophical context.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She is most remembered for her two articles published in The Westminster Review on The Property of Married Women and Capabilities and Disabilities of Women. Both demonstrate her use of research and rhetoric to advocate for women's rights. She was passionate about educational reform for women and for the poor. She published a single novel, the historical Pericles; she also translated from several languages into English poems that remained unpublished until after her death.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co., 1864.
335-78

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Anna Atkins
She was also a friend of Caroline Frances Cornwallis , who shared the scientific interests of both AA and her father. Atkins worried about Cornwallis's terrible health and found herself gently teased in return.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co., 1864.
228, 229, 245
Literary responses Sarah Stickney Ellis
Mary Ann Evans , later George Eliot, read SSE 's conduct manuals in the 1840s, but it is unlikely that Eliot took the advice too seriously, since other intellectual women were vocal in their distaste...
Literary responses Anna Brownell Jameson
The former was Caroline Frances Cornwallis 's The Capabilities and Disabilities of Women (January), and the latter John William Kaye 's The Employment of Women (February).
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
Caroline Frances Cornwallis wrote to a friend: The whole affair bears so much the aspect of imposture that I cannot think how she can hazard her fame by sending forth such statements.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co., 1864.
270
Literary responses Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
This time the Quarterly was more appreciative than the Dublin Review.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
231
In June this year Caroline Frances Cornwallis wrote in a letter that in this book Morgan had verily . . . told...
Textual Features Catherine Marsh
After his death, Arthur's widow requested that CM should write a biography of her husband, which she agreed to do.
O’Rorke, Lucy. The Life and Friendships of Catherine Marsh. Longmans, Green & Co., 1917.
204
CM recounts his boyhood Sunday school attendance, and how the death of his mother...

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Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. A Brief View of Greek Philosophy from the Age of Socrates to the Coming of Christ. William Pickering, 1844.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. A Brief View of Greek Philosophy up to the Age of Pericles. William Pickering, 1844.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. An Exposition of Vulgar and Common Errors Adapted to the Year of Grace MDCCCXLV. William Pickering, 1845.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. An Introduction to Practical Organic Chemistry. William Pickering, 1843.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “Capabilities and Disabilities of Women”. The Westminster Review, Vol.
67
, Leonard Scott & Co., pp. 23-40.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Christian Doctrine and Practice in the Second Century. William Pickering, 1844.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Christian Doctrine and Practice in the Twelfth Century. William Pickering, 1850.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century. William Pickering, 1846.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. General Principles of Grammar. William Pickering, 1847.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “History of the House of Savoy”. The Westminster Review, Vol.
65
, John Chapman, pp. 51-90.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “Naval Education”. Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, Vol.
56
, p. 318.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances, and John Barlow. On Man’s Power Over Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity. William Pickering, 1843.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. On The Principles of Criminal Law. William Pickering, 1846.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. On the State of Man Before the Promulgation of Christianity. William Pickering, 1848.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. On the State of Man Subsequent to the Promulgation of Christianity. William Pickering, 1854, 4 vols.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Pericles. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846, 2 vols.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience. William Pickering, 1841.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co., 1864.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “Self-Education”. The Westminster Review, Vol.
64
, John Chapman, pp. 73-94.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Sketches of Geology. William Pickering, 1848.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances, and John Barlow. The Connection Between Physiology and Intellectual Philosophy. William Pickering, 1842.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. The Philosophy of Ragged Schools. William Pickering, 1851.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “The Property of Married Women”. The Westminster Review, Vol.
65
, Leonard Scott & Co., pp. 181-97.
Hill, Micaiah, and Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Two Prize Essays on Juvenile Deliquency. Smith, Elder and Co., 1853.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “Wycliffe and His Times”. The Westminster Review, Vol.
62
, pp. 145-73.