Power and Protest: Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Society

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Rivers Oram, 2005 - Animal rights activists - 277 pages
This 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.

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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
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