http://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Frances_Power_Cobbe&feed=atom&action=historyFrances Power Cobbe - Revision history2024-03-28T15:06:39ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.23.5http://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Frances_Power_Cobbe&diff=43374&oldid=prevMsbcsds at 21:36, 5 November 20212021-11-05T21:36:34Z<p></p>
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</table>Msbcsdshttp://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Frances_Power_Cobbe&diff=39699&oldid=prevMsbcsds at 20:42, 5 October 20202020-10-05T20:42:03Z<p></p>
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</table>Msbcsdshttp://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Frances_Power_Cobbe&diff=19248&oldid=prevMsbcsds at 13:56, 1 September 20152015-09-01T13:56:55Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Social reformer </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">women's </del>suffrage movement <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">leader</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">with </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">particular focus on abuse</del>.  <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Believed </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">have created </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Animal activist movement when </del>she <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">founded several organizations devoted </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">animal welfare</del>.  <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Member </del>of the executive council of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">London </del>National Society for <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Women's </del>Suffrage. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> Author </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">numerous </del>books <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and articles</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">including 'The Intuitive Theory of Morals' </del>(<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1855</del>), <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'On the Pursuits </del>of Women<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">' </del>(<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1863</del>), <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'Cities </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Past' </del>(<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1864</del>), <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'Criminals</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Idiots</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Women </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Minors' (1869)</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'Darwinism </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Morals' (1871)</del>, and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'Scientific Spirit </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Age' (1888)</del>.  Life partner was sculptor [[Mary Lloyd]].   </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A writer </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ardent support of women’s </ins>suffrage<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, Frances Power Cobbe was the creator of the animal rights </ins>movement<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.  In the process</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">she founded the first animal advocacy groups: the National Vivisection Society (NAVS, 1875), and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV, 1898).</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Born as the only girl in </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">religious family in Dublin (she was a direct descendent of Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin from 1743-1765), she found herself disadvantaged in school and society relative to her male acquaintances</ins>.  <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">This experience forced her </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">consider a woman’s place in society.  The early death of her mother caused her to question her religious beliefs and she eventually declared herself agnostic.  Cobbe published her first thoughts on this matter in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">book An Essay on the Intuitive Theory of Morals (1855) in which </ins>she <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">argues that morality is inherent in everyone intellectually and not grounded on church laws.  The book was an immediate success.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Cobbe began offering her services </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the disadvantaged and unemployed</ins>.  <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">She also began contributing articles to various prominent newspapers concerning the need for social change to improve society.  Cobbe soon moved to London and immersed herself in the movement for women’s rights.  She was eventually a member </ins>of the executive council of the National Society for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Women’s </ins>Suffrage<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, and she became a close friend of John Stuart Mills</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Her writing on the topic </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">women’s rights was prodigious.  Among the many </ins>books <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">she wrote are included Criminals</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Idiots, Women, and Minors </ins>(<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1869</ins>), <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Duties </ins>of Women (<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1881</ins>), <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and The Hopes </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Humn Race, Hereafter and Here </ins>(<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1876</ins>)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.  Her pamphlet Wife Torture influenced the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1878 which gave a wife the legal right to separate with maintenance from a husband on the grounds of assault.  Cobbe published articles on women’s rights in almost every major periodical of her time.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Cobbe began her campaign for animal rights as vigorously as she had for women’s rights.  She saw a similar degree of men’s brutality to animals as she had to the abuse of women and children.  She was appalled by the abuse of animals used in research and scientific endeavours.  Particular attention was paid to the use of vivisection – the practice of dissecting animals while they are still alive for the purpose of scientific study.  Cobbe began publishing a series of pamphlets on the subject which instigated popular outrage and disgust in the public.  Her aim was to affect change in the practice around the world.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Cobbe formed a romantic partnership with the sculptor Mary Lloyd whom she met in 1861.  They lived together from 1864 until Lloyd’s death in 1896.  Throughout her life</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">her correspondence</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Cobbe referred to Lloyd as her husband </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wife.  Frances Cobbe wrote her autobiography The Life </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Frances Power Cobbe by Herself in 1894.</ins></div></td></tr>
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Social reformer and women's suffrage movement leader, with a particular focus on abuse. Believed to have created the Animal activist movement when she founded several organizations devoted to animal welfare. Member of the executive council of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage. Author of numerous books and articles, including 'The Intuitive Theory of Morals' (1855), 'On the Pursuits of Women' (1863), 'Cities of the Past' (1864), 'Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors' (1869), 'Darwinism in Morals' (1871), and 'Scientific Spirit of the Age' (1888). Life partner was sculptor [[Mary Lloyd]]. <br />
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