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
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Friends, Associates | Jessie White Mario | While visiting Italy, JWM
stayed with Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
at Casa Guidi. (Years later they had an unpleasant public debate over Italian politics.) She met Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
in Rome, beginning... |
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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Davies | ED
met Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and Annie Leigh Smith
in Algiers, and found in the latter the first person I had ever met who sympathized with my feeling of resentment at the subjection... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Mary Howitt | Family biographer Carl Ray Woodring numbers AMH
with a group of Pre-Raphaelite sisters, including Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon)
, Bessie Rayner Parkes
, and Margaret Gillies
, who associated themselves with innovation in... |
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 | Mary Howitt | MH
served on the reception committee for Harriet Beecher Stowe
at the time of her visit to England in April 1853. She had by that time become friendly with titled people and with members of... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | A close friendship developed between ABJ
and the future Geroge Eliot, who thought highly of Jameson's work. It was at a literary gathering held in ABJ's home that Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon)
first met... |
Friends, Associates | George Eliot | Bessie Rayner Parkes
(already a friend of Marian Evans—later GE
) introduced her to Barbara Leigh Smith
, who became her close confidant and supporter. Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton. 136 |
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... |
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... |
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