biography
| name: |
Cobbe, Frances Power
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pronunciation:
[kob]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1822–1904)
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| biography:
| Social worker and feminist, born in Newbridge, near Dublin, E Ireland. She travelled in Italy and the East, and wrote Cities of the Past (1864) and Italics (1864). A strong theist, a supporter of women's rights, and a prominent anti-vivisectionist, she was associated with Mary Carpenter in the founding of ragged schools. |
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