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THE STRAND MAGAZINE.

MISS FRANCES POWER COBBE.

Born 1822.

Age 20.
From a Photo. by Brigge, Baker St.
Age 55.
From a Photo. by H. le Lieure, Rome.
Age 40.
From a Photo. by Maull & Fox, London.
Present Day.
From a Photo. by Bassano, Old Bond St.


M ISS FRANCES POWER COBBE, daughter of Mr. Charles Cobbe, of Newbridge House, Co. Dublin, D.L., J.P. (who fought at Assaye as lieutenant in the 19th Light Dragoons), was born December 4th, 1822, and educated at Brighton. She has been a frequent contributor to the periodicals of the day, and is the author of a great number of works on the Rights and Higher Education of Women, and more than a hundred pamphlets and leaflets on the vivisection question. Miss Cobbe resided for some years in Bristol with the late Mary Carpenter, for the purpose of working at her reformatory and ragged schools; and subsequently interested herself in plans for befriending young servants and for the relief of destitute incurables. After a residence in Italy she settled in London, and, besides her literary work, was engaged in promoting the movement for obtaining Parliamentary suffrage for women. In 1880-81 she twice delivered to audiences of ladies a course of lectures on the Duties of Women; these have been largely circulated in America, and also translated and published in Danish, Italian, and French. During the last fifteen years Miss Cobbe has been principally occupied in founding and directing as Hon. Sec. the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection, an association of which the late Lord Shaftesbury was President.

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