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.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
Travel | Jessie White Mario | JWM
left Italy and travelled to St Ives in Cornwall to convalesce in the company of her friend Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 112, 141-2n3 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | Female Industry is a wide-ranging review covering the 1851 census results, the reports of Poor Law Commissioners
on women and children in agriculture, the Governesses' Benevolent Institution
, and The Lowell Offering, as well... |
Occupation | John Stuart Mill | JSM
served as independent MP for Westminster from 1865 to 1868. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press. vii The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Occupation | John Stuart Mill | In 1866 JSM
presented to the House of Commons
with parliament's first major suffrage petition. The petition, drafted by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, Jessie Boucherett
, and Emily Davies
, and signed by... |
Occupation | Marion Moss | One of her pupils, her niece Hertha Ayrton
(1854-1923), became a suffragist and a friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and George Eliot
. She obtained only third-class degree results at the end her studies... |
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. |
Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | FN
's dissatisfaction with her domestic situation intensified after she returned to England. She came to rely on friends for comfort and intellectual stimulation. She was close to her cousin Hilary Bonham Carter
, especially... |
Textual Production | Caroline Norton | This was the year of the founding of the Married Women's Property Committee
and of Barbara Leigh Smith
's pamphlet A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women. But... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
Travel | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
met in Paris intending to return to England together. Instead they rented a chalet together near La Celle St Cloud, a village twelve miles outside the city. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 1, 5-6 |
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 |
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... |
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