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Frances Power Cobbe

1822 - 1904

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Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) in 1875 and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in 1898, and was a member of the executive council of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frances Power Cobbe is the 6,091st most popular writer (up from 6,345th in 2019), the 311th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 339th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Irish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frances Power Cobbe ranks 6,091 out of 7,302. Before her are Karin Slaughter, José Burgos, James Dickey, Mathias Énard, Henry Ward Beecher, and Fredy Perlman. After her are Dora Marsden, Gerhard Roth, Stella Gibbons, Ben Okri, Roderick Thorp, and Emilia Lanier.

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Among people born in 1822, Frances Power Cobbe ranks 81. Before her are Henry James Sumner Maine, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, István Bittó, Lev Mei, Jorge Córdova, and Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello. After her are Edward Everett Hale, Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, Thomas Hughes, and George Stoneman. Among people deceased in 1904, Frances Power Cobbe ranks 91. Before her are Otto von Böhtlingk, Richard Knill Freeman, Andrei Ryabushkin, Nikiforos Lytras, Martin Johnson Heade, and Isaac Roberts. After her are John Bell Hatcher, and Mark Hanna.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Frances Power Cobbe ranks 311 out of 549. Before her are Harry Clarke (1889), William Desmond Taylor (1872), Robert O'Hara Burke (1821), William Carr (1876), Charlie Murphy (1988), and Ronan Keating (1977). After her are William Quan Judge (1851), Paul Harrington (1960), Tom Kiely (1869), Barney McKenna (1939), John McKenna (1855), and Colm Wilkinson (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Frances Power Cobbe ranks 44. Before her are Eoin Colfer (1965), Nahum Tate (1652), John Connolly (1968), Michael Scott (1959), Liam O'Flaherty (1896), and Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906). After her are Colum McCann (1965), Roddy Doyle (1958), Sally Rooney (1991), Frank Harris (1856), Cecelia Ahern (1981), and Claire Keegan (1968).

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