Frances Power Cobbe
Although she early exhibited her concern for female autonomy and for the eradication of restrictions on female behavior, (manifested in her refusal to attend family prayers with her father and in her iconoclastic travels after his death), it was only after living with Mary ?, that Cobbe became explicitly political.
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Cobbe, Frances Power (1822-1904)
WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:
BOOKS
* An Essay on Intuitive Morals, Being an Attempt to Popularise Ethical Science, 2 volumes, anonymous (Part I: Theory of Morals, London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855; Part II: Practice of Morals , London: Chapman, 1857; revised and republished, 1 volume, Boston: Crosby, Nichols, 1859; London: Trübner, 1864); republished as The Theory of Intuitive Morals, Being a Corrected Reprint of the Third Edition of An Essay on Intuitive Morals, with a New Preface and Appendices (London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1902).
* Friendless Girls, and How to Help Them: Being an Account of the Preventive Mission at Bristol (London: Emily Faithfull, 1861).
* The Sick in Workhouses: Who They Are and How They Should Be Treated (London: J. Nisbet, 1861).
* The Workhouse as an Hospital (London, 1861).
* Female Education, and How It Would Be Affected by University Examinations: A Paper Read at the Social Science Congress, London, 1862 (London: Emily Faithfull, 1862).
* Essays on the Pursuits of Women (London: Emily Faithfull, 1863).
* The Red Flag in John Bull's Eyes (London: Emily Faithfull, 1863).
* Rejoinder to Mrs. Stowe's Reply to the Address of Women of England (London: Emily Faithfull, 1863).
* The Religious Demands of the Age: A Reprint of the Preface to the London Edition of the Collected Works of Theodore Parker (Boston: Walker, Wise, 1863).
* Thanksgiving: A Chapter of Religious Duty (London: Trübner, 1863).
* Broken Lights: An Inquiry into the Present Condition and Future Prospects of Religious Faith (London: Trübner, 1864; Boston: Tilton, 1864).
* The Cities of the Past (London: Trübner, 1864).
* Italics: Brief Notes on Politics, People, and Places in Italy, in 1864 (London: Trübner, 1864).
* Religious Duty (London: Trübner, 1864; Boston: W. V. Spencer, 1864).
* Studies New and Old of Ethical and Social Subjects (London: Trübner, 1865; Boston: W. V. Spencer, 1866).
* The Confessions of a Lost Dog: Reported by Her Mistress F. P. Cobbe (London: Griffith & Farran, 1867).
* Hours of Work and Play (London: Trübner, 1867).
* Dawning Lights: An Inquiry Concerning the Secular Results of the New Reformation (London: Whitfield, 1868).
* Why Women Desire the Franchise (London: London National Society for Womens Suffrage, 1869).
* Our Policy: An Address to Women Concerning the Suffrage (London: London National Society for Womens Suffrage, 1870).
* Darwinism in Morals, and Other Essays (London & Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate, 1872; Boston: G. H. Ellis, 1883).
* Doomed To Be Saved (London: Williams & Norgate, 1874).
* Essays on the Life and Death, and the Evolution of the Social Sentiment (London, 1874).
* The Hopes of the Human Race, Hereafter and Here (London & Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate, 1874; New York: J. Miller, 1876).
* False Beasts and True: Essays on Natural and Unnatural History (London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1876).
* Re-Echoes (London & Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate, 1876; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1877).
* The Age of Science: A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century, as Merlin Nostradamus (London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1877).
* The British Medical Manifesto, by Cobbe and Ellen Elcum Rees (N.p., 1881).
* The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures (London: Williams & Norgate / Boston: G. H. Ellis, 1881).
* The Higher Expediency: Address ... to the Members of the Richmond Athenaeum, March 6th, 1882 (London: Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection, United with the International Association for the Total Suppression of Vivisection, 1882).
* The Janus of Science (London: Victoria Street Society, 1882).
* The Peak in Darien, with Some Other Inquiries Touching Concerns of the Soul and the Body (London: Williams & Norgate, 1882; Boston: G. H. Ellis, 1882).
* Agnostic Morality (London & New York, 1883).
* Light in Dark Places (London: Victoria Street Society, 1883).
* The Study of Physiology as a Branch of Education (London: Victoria Street Society, 1883).
* The New Benefactor of Humanity (Westminster, 1884).
* A Faithless World (London: Williams & Norgate, 1885; Boston: G. H. Ellis, 1885).
* Rest in the Lord, and Other Small Pieces (London: Pewtress, 1887).
* Concerning Immortality (Chicago, 1888).
* The Scientific Spirit of the Age, and Other Pleas and Discussions (London: Smith, Elder, 1888).
* The Friend of Man: and His Friends, the Poets (London: G. Bell, 1889).
* The Modern Rack: Papers on Vivisection (London: Sonnenschein, 1889).
* Vivisection in America: I. How It Is Taught; II. How It Is Practised, by Cobbe and Benjamin Bryan (London: Sonnenschein, 1889).
* The Oubliettes of Science (Westminster: Victoria Street Society, 1890).
* Health and Holiness (London: G. Bell, 1891).
* Public Money: An Enquiry Concerning an Item of Its Expenditure (London: Victoria Street Society, 1892).
* Life of Frances Power Cobbe, by Herself, 2 volumes (London: Richard Bently, 1894; Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894); revised edition, 1 volume (London: Sonnenschein, 1904).
* The Divine Law of Love, in Its Application to the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals (London: National Antivivisection Society, 1895).
* On Jesuit Doctrines Concerning the Rights of Animals (London, 1895).
SELECTED PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS—UNCOLLECTED
* "The Rights of Man, Claims of Brutes," Fraser's, 68 (November 1863): 586-602.
* "The Nineteenth-Century," Fraser's, 69 (April 1864): 481-494.
* "The Morals of Literature," Fraser's, 70 (July 1864): 124-133.
* "Philosophy of the Poor-Laws," Fraser's, 70 (September 1864): 373-394.
* "Indigent ClassesTheir Schools, and Dwellings," Fraser's, 73 (February 1866): 143-160.
* "Conventional Laws of Society," Fraser's, 74 (November 1866): 667-673.
* "Household Service," Fraser's, 77 (January 1868): 121-134.
* "Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors: Is the Classification Sound?," Fraser's, 78 (December 1868): 777-794.
* "The Defects of Women, and How to Remedy Them," Putnam's, 4 (1869): 226-233.
* "Consciousness of Dogs," Quarterly Review, 133 (October 1872): 419-451.
* "Life after Death," Theological Review (October 1872-July 1873).
* "Dogs Whom I Have Met," Cornhill, 26 (December 1872): 662-678.
* "Heteropathy, Aversion, Sympathy," Theological Review (January 1874).
* "The Moral Aspects of Vivisection," New Quarterly, 4 (April 1875): 222-237.
* "Sacrificial Medicine," Cornhill, 32 (October 1875): 427-438.
* "Mr. Lowe and the Vivisection Act," Contemporary Review, 29 (February 1877): 335-347.
* "The Little Health of Ladies," Contemporary Review, 31 (January 1878): 276-296.
* "Wife-Torture in England," Contemporary Review, 32 (April 1878): 55-87.
* "Tender Vivisection," Scotsman, 13 January 1881.
* "The Medical Profession and Its Morality," Modern Review (April 1881).
* "Vivisection: Four Replies," Fortnightly Review, new series 31 (January 1882): 88-104.
* "Zophily," Cornhill, 45 (March 1882): 279-288.
* "A Few Rabbits," Manchester Guardian, 14 December 1886.
* "The Education of the Emotions," Fortnightly Review, new series 43 (February 1888): 223-236.
* "The Scientific Spirit of the Age," Contemporary Review, 54 (July 1888): 126-139.
* "The Ethics of Zophily," Contemporary Review, 68 (October 1895): 497-508.
* "Lord Lister and Painless Vivisection," Manchester Guardian, 14 October 1898.
