Frances Power Cobbe was an Anglo-Irish philosopher, writer and social reformer whose philosophical contribution on ethics, animal rights and critiques of Darwinism is now being rediscovered as part of the recovery of women in the history of philosophy. She founded the National Anti-Vivisection Society in 1875 and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection in 1898, served on the executive council of the London National Society for Womens Suffrage, and her 1878 essay Wife-Torture in England helped bring about legislation granting women the right to legal separation from violent husbands.
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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.
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Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 - 5 April 1904) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer.
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Her 1878 essay Wife-Torture in England influenced the passage of the 1878 Matrimonial Causes Act, which gave women of violent husbands the right to a legal separation.
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Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 - 5 April 1904) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer.
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