COBBE, FRANCES POWER British social writer and author, was born in Dublin on Dec. 4, 1822, of a fam ily many of whose members had held high positions in the Church. She was educated privately, and her first book, The Theory of Intuitive Morals, was published anonymously. In 1858 she began social work among the girls and boys of Bristol. She spent much time abroad, and began to contribute to the newspapers and re views, carrying out various special investigations on vivisection, of which she was all her life a violent opponent, on destitution, and on separation orders and divorce. She was a strong suffragist. From time to time she conducted services in Unitarian chapels. She published about 3o separate works, among which may be mentioned : The Duties of Women (1881; new ed., edit. Blanche Atkinson, 1905) , and her own Life (2 vols., 1894; new ed., edit. Blanche Atkinson, 1904).