Frances Power Cobbe

This Element introduces the philosophy of Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), a very well-known moral theorist, advocate of animal welfare and women''s rights, and critic of Darwinism and atheism in the Victorian era. After locating Cobbe''s achievements within nineteenth-century British culture, this Element examines her duty-based moral theory of the 1850s and then her 1860s accounts of duties to a...