Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

08 April 1827 - 11 June 1891

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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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 .
Family and Intimate relationships	Elizabeth Siddal	ES 's initial engagement to Rossetti, who was involved with a series of other women, ended in the spring of 1858. However, the two were reunited by Ruskin two years later, and Rossetti finally married...
Family and Intimate relationships	George Eliot	Lewes was married. He and his wife had agreed as rational free-thinkers that monogamy was unnatural. He had thus tolerated her relationship with his friend Thornton Hunt , and supported her children by Hunt, who...
Family and Intimate relationships	Bessie Rayner Parkes	While visiting Hastings, the teenage BRP began a lifelong friendship with Barbara Leigh Smith . Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press. 510
Family and Intimate relationships	Hannah Cullwick	She was thirty-nine years old when they married, and he forty-four. Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray. 318 Munby's family knew neither of Hannah nor of the marriage until after his death. Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, pp. 1 - 28, passim. 188 The marriage was childless. There is some dispute...
Family and Intimate relationships	Bessie Rayner Parkes	Around this period in her life, BRP ended a relationship with a suitor, her cousin Samuel Blackwell , who had persisted in seeking her hand in marriage for more than ten years. Her daughter classifies...
Family and Intimate relationships	Bessie Rayner Parkes	While staying at the chalet BRP met and fell in love with Louis Belloc , Louise Belloc's only son. Louis was two years her junior and had had his promising career as a lawyer interrupted...
Family and Intimate relationships	Florence Nightingale	FN 's first cousins included Hilary Bonham-Carter and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon . Bodichon and her siblings, being born out of wedlock, were largely ignored by the Nightingales. However, FN and Bodichon corresponded later in life.
Education	Edith Craig	Craig then was tutored privately at Dixton Manor Hall at Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, the home of Mrs Cole's sister, Elizabeth Malleson . Malleson had been an active member of the women's suffrage movement since...
Education	Jessie White Mario	In 1857 JWM recounted these failed admission attempts in a letter to women's rights advocate Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon . Bodichon relates JWM 's struggle in Women and Work (1857). Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 41 O’Connor, Maura. The Romance of Italy and the English Political Imagination. St Martin’s Press. 98
Dedications	Bessie Rayner Parkes	This collection is dedicated to an unnamed critic who in all likelihood is Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon . BRP begins the dedication, Those whom these poems may concern Will each their own true portion know...
Dedications	Bessie Rayner Parkes	BRP published Poems, a volume dedicated to Barbara Leigh Smith . Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton. 136 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 184
death	Anna Brownell Jameson	In November 1859, ABJ wrote to Barbara Bodichon complaining of fatigue: what an old woman I felt to have grown! Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press. 8
death	Adelaide Procter	Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon wrote of her grief to Bessie Rayner Parkes : Adelaide's death is as a light gone from among us. Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus. 210 AP was buried in the Catholic St Mary's Cemetery, Kensal Green...
Cultural formation	Bessie Rayner Parkes	Some historians have speculated about BRP 's sexuality. As a young adult she built a romantic friendship with Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon) which was for years the most important relationship of her life. It...

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