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Alison Stone is Professor of Philosophy at Lancaster University. Her interests span the history of philosophy, post-Kantian European philosophy, feminist philosophy, and aesthetics. Her most recent books are Being Born (OUP 2019), Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosopher (OUP, 2022), and Frances Power Cobbe in the series Cambridge Elements in Women in the History of Philosophy (CUP, 2022). With Lydia Moland, she is co-editing the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century.
This book offers a compelling exploration of its subject matter, presenting thought-provoking insights that linger long after the final page. Readers receive thorough chapter summaries, reflecting the book's focus on providing them with a wealth of information that enriches their understanding of the topic. Stone draws on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, and successfully maintains interest in twelve remarkable women -- and philosophers. * Mariam Zarif, British Association for Victorian Studies Newsletter * A superb, absorbing, and thought-provoking work offering a major reassessment of nineteenth-century philosophy, and giving voice to a mostly voiceless group of brilliant women of towering intellects who deserve our recognition, historical appreciation, and admiration. * Petros Spanou, Reviews in History * Stone's fascinating and important new monograph diagnoses and begins to rectify the longstanding exclusion of women who philosophised during this period. * Clare Carlisle, Mind * A bold and pioneering study, fluently written and admirably clear. This book should quickly, and rightly, become essential reading for all scholars of the period. * Emily Thomas, Philosophical Review * An extremely interesting and eminently readable book, which introduces the reader to a range of women who may not be already known ... but who ought to be. It is an important contribution to the history of philosophy, and to recovering the work of women who, however famous in their own day, wrote in ink which society made disappear for many, many years. * Helen Mccabe, Victorian Studies * This is an extremely interesting and eminently readable book, which introduces the reader to a range of women who may not be already known (or known as philosophers), butwho ought to be; the debates in which they were engaging; and the modes in which they engaged. It is an important contribution to the history of philosophy, and to recovering the work of women who, however famous in their own day, wrote in ink which society made disappear for many, many years. * Helen McCabe, Victorian Studies *
