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Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner.
Frances Power Cobbe (Irlanda, 4 de dezembro de 1822 — País de Gales, 5 de abril de 1904) foi uma escritora irlandesa, reformadora social, ativista antivivissecção e principal ativista do sufrágio feminino.
12 de jan. de 2022 · A biography of Frances Power Cobbe, an Anglo-Irish journalist, feminist, and antivivisectionist. Learn about her life, work, and legacy in the fields of feminism, journalism, and animal rights.
This Element introduces the philosophy of Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), a very well-known moral theorist, advocate of animal welfare and women's rights, and critic of Darwinism and atheism in the Victorian era.
This book brings together essential writings by the unjustly neglected nineteenth-century philosopher Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904). A prominent ethicist, feminist, champion of animal welfare, and critic of Darwinism and atheism, Cobbe was very well known and highly regarded in the Victorian era.
Frances Power Cobbe was an important participant in the middle-class women's movement of 19th-century England. She was born in Dublin on December 4, 1822, the only daughter of Charles Cobbe, an Anglo-Irish landowner, and Frances Conway Cobbe.
Cobbe rapidly established herself as a prolific journalist and leading figure in the women's movement; her pamphlet Wife-torture (1878) argued that physical abuse should be grounds for legal separation and significantly influenced the Matrimonial Causes Act, passed later that year.
