Power and Protest: Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian SocietyThis is the first full-length biography of Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), the Anglo-Irish reformer and pioneer of many causes, best remembered for her antivivisection and animal liberation work. Lori Williamson has pieced together her remarkable life from a variety of sources, and reveals one of Victorian England's most famous and vocal women in all her complexity. |
Contents
The Grand Tour and Work in Bristol | 36 |
The Claims of Women and Life in London | 70 |
The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes | 97 |
Copyright | |
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