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Frances Power CobbeFrances Power Cobbe (1822 - 1904), theological and social writer, was born near Dublin. Coming under the influence of Theodore Parker, she became a Unitarian. Her first work, published anonymously, was on The Intuitive Theory of Morals (1855). She travelled in the East, and published Cities of the Past (1864). Later she became interested in social questions and philanthropic work, and wrote many books on these and kindred subjects, including Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors (1869), Darwinism in Morals (1872), and Scientific Spirit of the Age (1888). She was a strong opponent of vivisection. Cobbe, Frances Power Cobbe, Frances Power
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