Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
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Standard Name: Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith
Birth Name: Barbara Leigh Smith
Married Name: Barbara Bodichon
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'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.
Connections
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Material Conditions of Writing | Jessie White Mario | George Eliot
wrote to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
regarding JWM
's writing and her convalescence from a nervous condition, which she thought called for absolute rest. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 142n3 |
Literary responses | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Bodichon
, who left much of the journal's management to BRP
after moving abroad, felt that Parkes had a wildly exaggerated sense of the importance of her work. Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>English Woman’s Journal</span>”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38. 120 |
Literary responses | George Eliot | Barbara Bodichon
, encountering excerpts from the novel in Algiers, was immediately convinced it was the work of her friend—there is her great big head and heart and her wise wide views Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 3: 56-7 |
Literary responses | Isa Craig | One of the readers of the English Woman's Journal, Marian Lewes
, wrote to its proprietor, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, to say how deeply she had been affected by Infant Seamstresses. Supposing... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Norton | The early part of the work summarizing the legal position of women reads much like Barbara Leigh Smith
's A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, published the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | In From the Antique, a dramatic lyric composed on 28 June 1854, Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press. 3: 449 Doubly blank in a woman's lot: I wish... |
Health | Anna Mary Howitt | She seems to have had a nervous breakdown after Ruskin
destroyed her confidence in her painting ability, a breakdown which expressed itself through spiritualist beliefs: she claimed to be directed in her actions by invisible... |
Health | Christina Rossetti | She suffered a relapse in spring of 1872. Convalescing in Sussex, she made a visit to her friend Barbara Bodichon
at Scalands Cottage near Hastings. She felt that her recovery from what came close... |
Friends, Associates | Louisa May Alcott | LMA
was a friend of, among others, Frances Hodgson Burnett
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, who helped her family manage their financial difficulties, and Henry David Thoreau
, who taught science to her and her... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Mary Howitt | Family biographer Carl Ray Woodring numbers AMH
with a group of Pre-Raphaelite sisters, including Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon)
, Bessie Rayner Parkes
, and Margaret Gillies
, who associated themselves with innovation in... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Davies | ED
met Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and Annie Leigh Smith
in Algiers, and found in the latter the first person I had ever met who sympathized with my feeling of resentment at the subjection... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | She became a close friend of Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
, of Hertha Ayrton
, physicist and suffragist, and of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould
. These two women, mother and daughter, embodied a thread linking... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Siddal | ES
had met some female associates of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
: artists Anna Mary Howitt
(daughter of Mary Howitt
) and Barbara Leigh Smith
(later Bodichon), as well as Bessie Rayner Parkes
. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Siddal | While recovering from illness in HastingsES
visited Barbara Leigh Smith
and Anna Mary Howitt
at Smith's nearby cottage, Scalands in Sussex. Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists. Manchester City Art Galleries. 103 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | MH
served on the reception committee for Harriet Beecher Stowe
at the time of her visit to England in April 1853. She had by that time become friendly with titled people and with members of... |
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