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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Textual Production | Adelaide Procter | AP
was involved with her reform-minded friends, including Bessie Rayner Parkes
, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, and Matilda M. Hays
, in helping to found the English Woman's Journal in 1858. She later contributed... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | Like her patriotic colleagues Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Barbara Bodichon
, and Ray Strachey
, ER
was a strong believer in women's fundamental responsibilities as citizens, in their commitment to improving the state despite misogynistic... |
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 |
Occupation | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Involved—with his brother
, William Holman Hunt
, John Everett Millais
, and others—in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
's critique of the reigning artistic principles and values, DGR
has subsequently become one of the most renowned... |
Friends, Associates | Christina Rossetti | Around this time she became aware of her brother Dante Gabriel
's involvement with Elizabeth Siddal
, although she and Siddal met only in 1854 and were never intimate friends. Close family friends of Christina... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Edith J. Simcox | Elma Stuart
, who had also been an intimate friend of George Eliot
, became a close friend of EJS
. In March 1881 they spent a week together at Malvern, where they exchanged... |
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. |
Friends, Associates | Helen Taylor | HT
moved in political and social circles that included Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Louisa Garrett Anderson
, Emily Davies
, Elizabeth Wolstenholme
, Frances Mary Buss
, Dorothea Beale
, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton University Press. 186 Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. xxvii |
Friends, Associates | Julia Wedgwood | This friendship was cemented during visits to Linlathen in Forfarshire, the home of Thomas Erskine
, who was himself a major spiritual influence on JW
. Her letters to Gurney mention meetings with Darwin |
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