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Frances Power Cobbe; feminist, journalist, anti-vivisectionist & philanthropist; was born in Dublin #OTD 1822. Her childhood home was Newbridge House: https://newbridgehouseandfarm.com/frances-power-cobbe-a-fingal-daughter-of-feminism/
#DIB https://dib.ie/biography/cobbe-frances-power-a1777
Her pamphlet Wife-torture (1878) argued that physical abuse should be grounds for legal separation. It influenced the Matrimonial Causes Act. The other great cause of her life was campaigning against animal cruelty, founding the British Union Against Vivisection.