Frances Power Cobbe
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Frances Power Cobbe (December 4, 1822 – April 5, 1904), was an Irish writer who is known today primarily as a 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.
A 320-page biography by the American author Lori Williamson was published in 2005.
[edit] See also
- British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
- Animal rights
- Animal testing
- Animal liberation movement
[edit] References
- Rakow, Lana and Kramarae, Cheris (2003). The Revolution in Words: Women's Source Library. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-25689-5
