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Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
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Standard Name: Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith
Birth Name: Barbara Leigh Smith
Married Name: Barbara Bodichon
BLSB
's literary work emerged from her convictions as a feminist. Her accounts of women's political, legal, and educational disabilities (in lectures, pamphlets, and an important periodical) played a crucial role in mid-Victorian legal reform and the campaigns for improved employment and educational opportunities for women. She also published a travel diary.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| Textual Features | Margaret Oliphant | Oliphant's views on the status of women shifted somewhat with time. She dismissed the women's suffrage petition, and represented women who supported suffrage as unnatural. Answering Barbara Bodichon
, she argued that marriage was... |
| Textual Features | George Eliot | This story is equally remarkable for the portraits of Mr Tryan (the Evangelical clergyman who not only converts Janet to his beliefs but succeeds in sparking her will to regeneration) and of Janet herself, but... |
| Residence | Matilda Betham-Edwards | She had there a little house at one end of a picturesque terrace. When Helen C. Black
visited her there, her upstairs study was furnished with a Moroccan carpet, pottery from Greece and other countries... |
| Reception | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Remembered mostly for her prose contributions to the early feminist movement, BRP
also produced poetic creations which deserve not to be dismissed. (Her daughter credits her with admiring the poetry of Percy Shelley
and more... |
| Reception | Matilda Hays | In a letter to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
in 1858, Bessie Rayner Parkes
wrote that all goes on like clockwork at the office, under Max, who is the most methodical of workers, & brings all... |
| Reception | Christina Rossetti | This best-known poem has had myriad editions, often with illustrations, and generated a wide range of interpretation. It resonates powerfully with CR
's Anglicanism
, and more particularly her experience at the St Mary Magdalene Penitentiary |
| Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | Blackwood's published MO
's severe critique of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
's Brief Summary . . . of the Laws Concerning Women. Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research. 159: 254 |
| Publishing | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
and Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon)
began writing for the Waverley Journal, by ladies for the cultivation of the memorable, the progressive and the beautiful, which in 1857 was succeeded by the English... |
| politics | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
became a mentor to a group of young reformers and educational pioneers, including Adelaide Procter
, Emily Faithfull
, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. She sometimes provided meeting space for the group, both... |
| politics | Adelaide Procter | The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
(for which AP
, with Barbara Leigh Smith
Bodichon and others, had opened an office) met for the first time. Thomas, Leesther. A Poetry of Deliverance with Tractarian Affinities: A Study of Adelaide A. Procter’s Poetry. Florida State University. 36 |
| politics | George Eliot | GE
was always ambivalent about the struggle for women's rights. This ambivalence may have been fed by the fact that her situation with Lewes made her peculiarly vulnerable to public attack of a personal flavour... |
| politics | Helen Taylor | HT
's radical socialist principles were evident in her work for educational and land reform, as well as in her effort in 1885 to stand for parliament. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
| politics | Jessie Boucherett | In 1859, along with Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and Adelaide Procter
, JB
launched the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
(SPEW). They held their first meeting on 19 June 1859. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 232n1 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. “Obituary: Miss Emilia Jessie Boucherett”. Times, p. 8. |
| politics | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's name headed the petition organised by Barbara Leigh Smith
and the Married Women's Property Committee
and presented to Parliament in December 1855 to lobby for reform to married women's property law: this made... |
| politics | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
was a prominent member of the committee (founded this month by Barbara Leigh Smith
) which drew up a petition for a Married Woman's Property Bill. Strachey, Ray. The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain. Virago. 89 |
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