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Frances Power Cobbe

Born

in Dublin, Ireland

December 04, 1822

Died

April 05, 1904

Genre

Nonfiction, Sociology, Ethics

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Frances Power Cobbe was an Irish writer who is known today as a social reformer, feminist theorist, and pioneering animal rights activist.

Born in Dublin, Cobbe founded the Society for the Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection (SPALV) in 1875, the world's first organization campaigning against animal experiments, and in 1898, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV), two groups that remain active. Cobbe was a member of the executive council of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage and a writer of editorial columns for London newspapers on suffrage, property rights for women, and opposition to vivisection.

Cobbe's first work, published anonymously, was on The Intuitive Theory of Morals (1855). She travelled in ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 136 ratings · 25 reviews · 124 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Confessions of a Lost Dog (1867) 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1867 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1869 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of Frances Power Cobbe, by Herself 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1894 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darwinism In Morals, And Other Essays 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1872 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essays on the Pursuits of Women: Also, a Paper on Female Education 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1862 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moral Aspects of Vivisection by Frances Power Cobbe, Ernest Bell really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1876 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Royal Commision on Vivisection: Selections from the admissions, assertions and evasions of the witnesses really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1881	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scientific Spirit of the Age, and other pleas and discusions liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1888 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vivisection in America it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1889 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.”
― Frances Power Cobbe

tags: sincerity, social-change

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“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?”
― Frances Power Cobbe, Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors

tags: feminist, marriage, victorian, women, women-s-rights

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“As the main work of civilization has been the vindication of the rights of the weak, it is not too much, I think, to insist that the practice of Vivisection, in which this tyranny of strength culminates is a retrograde step in the progress of our race, a backwater in the onward flowing stream of justice and mercy, no less anomalous than it is deplorable and portentous.”
― Frances Power Cobbe, The Moral Aspects of Vivisection

tags: ethics-and-morality, progress, vivisection

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