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.
Black and white photograph of Barbara Bodichon in profile, looking towards the right. Her hair is pulled back in a bun, with some part in a single plait. She is wearing a white blouse with a ruffled neckline, and a black jacket with buttons.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Hannah Cullwick
She was thirty-nine years old when they married, and he forty-four.
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray.
318
Munby's family knew neither of Hannah nor of the marriage until after his death.
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
188
The marriage was childless. There is some dispute...
Occupation Emily Davies
ED , as Mistress of Girton from 1872 to 1875, and later as its Honorary Secretary, remained closely involved in the fundraising and administration of the College after its founding. She kept up the pressure...
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...
politics Emily Davies
Committee members included Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , Elizabeth Bostock , Isa Craig , Russell Gurney , G. W. Hastings , James Heywood , and Louisa, Lady Goldsmid .
politics Emily Davies
Under the direction of Charlotte Manning , five students began studying at the College at Benslow House, Hitchin, in October 1869.
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable.
210, 219-20
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon donated some sketches to decorate the walls...
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
Family and Intimate relationships George Eliot
Lewes was married. He and his wife had agreed as rational free-thinkers that monogamy was unnatural. He had thus tolerated her relationship with his friend Thornton Hunt , and supported her children by Hunt, who...
politics George Eliot
GE was always ambivalent about the struggle for women's rights. This ambivalence may have been fed by the fact that her situation with Lewes made her peculiarly vulnerable to public attack of a personal flavour...
Friends, Associates George Eliot
Some of her closest friends were prominent feminists, and they were among those soonest willing to flout convention and visit her after her union to Lewes.
Despite the social and spiritual gulf between them, GE
Textual Features George Eliot
This story is equally remarkable for the portraits of Mr Tryan (the Evangelical clergyman who not only converts Janet to his beliefs but succeeds in sparking her will to regeneration) and of Janet herself, but...
Literary responses George Eliot
Barbara Bodichon , encountering excerpts from the novel in Algiers, was immediately convinced it was the work of her friend—there is her great big head and heart and her wise wide views
Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press.
3: 56-7
Theme or Topic Treated in Text George Eliot
This novel opens at the time of the death of Lorenzo de Medici , when the Florence that he ruled was riven by conflict among the various political intellectual groupings that supported the new learning...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Gaskell
By 1852, EG 's strong nucleus of important female friends included Barbara Leigh Smith , Bessie Parkes , Adelaide Procter , Octavia and Miranda Hill , and Harriet Martineau .
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
311
politics Matilda Hays
In 1855, MH took part in Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 's Married Women's Property Committee .
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
8
As an open advocate of women in the early days of middle-class feminism, she commented in Adrienne Hope...

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