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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Textual Production | Bessie Rayner Parkes | In 1848 BRP
and her friend Barbara Leigh Smith
first began working together to try to publish their writings. Despite an editor's warning not to cast aside the prospect of domestic happiness, Rendall, Jane. “Friendship and Politics: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and Bessie Rayner Parkes”. Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of Gender in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Susan Mendus and Jane Rendall, Routledge, pp. 136-70. 149 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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