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
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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politics | Isa Craig | Together with feminist colleagues Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, Bessie Rayner Parkes
, and Emily Davies
, IC
helped publicise John Stuart Mill's
parliamentary nomination. Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus. 216 |
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... |
Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | She wrote this article at the height of the parliamentary debates on the legal rights of married women. Despite being very ill, CFC
was determined to participate in this discourse and give aid to a... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was a friend of Emily Faithfull
, Geraldine Jewsbury
, and Rosa Bonheur
, and she knew Josephine Butler
, Augusta Webster
, Lady Battersea
, Emily Pfeiffer
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie
, Helen Taylor |
politics | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's name headed the petition organised by Barbara Leigh Smith
and the Married Women's Property Committee
and presented to Parliament in December 1855 to lobby for reform to married women's property law: this made... |
Friends, Associates | Jessie Boucherett | Helen Blackburn
recounts that JB
met Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and Adelaide Procter
after casually picking up a copy of the English Woman's Journal at a railway station. She was so impressed with the contents... |
politics | Jessie Boucherett | In 1859, along with Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and Adelaide Procter
, JB
launched the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
(SPEW). They held their first meeting on 19 June 1859. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 232n1 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. “Obituary: Miss Emilia Jessie Boucherett”. Times, p. 8. |
Textual Production | Jessie Boucherett | During the 1860s JB
wrote a number of articles for the English Woman's Journal, the publication begun by Bessie Rayner Parkes
and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
(and of whose successor journal she was later editor). Lacey, Candida Ann, editor. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group. Routledge. 225-77 |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | An early literary acquaintance of MBE
was the playwright Joseph Stirling Coyne
(known as Sterling Coyne), whom she met through her cousin Amelia B. Edwards
. Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, p. vi, 354 pp. 130 |
Residence | Matilda Betham-Edwards | She had there a little house at one end of a picturesque terrace. When Helen C. Black
visited her there, her upstairs study was furnished with a Moroccan carpet, pottery from Greece and other countries... |
Textual Features | Matilda Betham-Edwards | She describes here her journey, with a female friend (actually Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
), to Spain with the particular purpose of seeing the works of Velasquez
, and on to North Africa, in the... |
Travel | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
travelled, in company with Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, through France and Spain to Algeria, particularly Oran. Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, p. vi, 354 pp. 233 |
Travel | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
spent a week with George Eliot
, George Henry Lewes
, and Barbara Bodichon
at an old rectory at Swanmore in the Isle of Wight, which Bodichon had rented for a Christmas holiday. Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, p. vi, 354 pp. 250-1 |
politics | Lydia Becker | The meeting brought her into touch with the work which responded to the aspirations of her life. Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Source Book Press. 24 |
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... |
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