Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe (December 4, 1822April 5, 1904), was an Irish writer who is known today as a social reformer, feminist theorist and pioneer animal rights activist.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, 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 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 the East, and published "Cities of the Past" (1864), "Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors" (1869), "Darwinism in Morals" (1872), and "Scientific Spirit of the Age" (1888).

Under the influence of Theodore Parker, she became a Unitarian. Fact|date=December 2007

ee also

*People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
*Animal testing
*Animal liberation movement
*History of feminism

References

*Caine, Barbara. "Victorian feminists". Oxford 1992
*Rakow, Lana and Kramarae, Cheris. "The Revolution in Words: Women's Source Library". London, Routledge 2003 ISBN 0-415-25689-5

Further reading

*Lori Williamson, "Power and protest : Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian society". 2005. ISBN 978-1854891006. A 320-page biography.
*Sally Mitchell, "Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Journalist, Feminist, Reformer". University of Virginia Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0813922713. The first authoritative scholarly biography based on family papers and archival sources.

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2005_26_mon_04.shtml Victorian feminist, social reformer and anti-vivisectionist] , discussion on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, June 27, 2005
* [http://www.caadv.org/docs/timeline.pdf Her story of Domestic Violence]
* [http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2001/cobbe.html State University of New York - Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904}]
*worldcat id|lccn-n84-43724


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