The duties of women: A course of lectures

by Frances Power Cobbe

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193 pages, Unknown Binding

First published August 20, 2010

About the author

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 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.
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