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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | The closest friend of AP
's childhood was Anne Leigh Smith
, sister of Barbara Leigh Smith
. Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus. 209 |
| Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | Other intimate feminist friends of AP
's adult years, in addition to Matilda Hays
, were Bessie Rayner Parkes
and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. Procter was also a member of the Portfolio Society
... |
| death | Adelaide Procter | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
wrote of her grief to Bessie Rayner Parkes
: Adelaide's death is as a light gone from among us. Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus. 210 |
| 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... |
| Dedications | Bessie Rayner Parkes | This collection is dedicated to an unnamed critic who in all likelihood is Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. BRP
begins the dedication, Those whom these poems may concern Will each their own true portion know... |
| Literary responses | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Bodichon
, who left much of the journal's management to BRP
after moving abroad, felt that Parkes had a wildly exaggerated sense of the importance of her work. Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>English Woman’s Journal</span>”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38. 120 |
| Reception | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Remembered mostly for her prose contributions to the early feminist movement, BRP
also produced poetic creations which deserve not to be dismissed. (Her daughter credits her with admiring the poetry of Percy Shelley
and more... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | While visiting Hastings, the teenage BRP
began a lifelong friendship with Barbara Leigh Smith
. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press. 510 |
| politics | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
was a prominent member of the committee (founded this month by Barbara Leigh Smith
) which drew up a petition for a Married Woman's Property Bill. Strachey, Ray. The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain. Virago. 89 |
| Occupation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
was appointed as editor of the English Woman's Journal, shortly before Barbara Leigh Smith
began to assist the magazine financially. Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>English Woman’s Journal</span>”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38. 115 |
| Travel | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
met in Paris intending to return to England together. Instead they rented a chalet together near La Celle St Cloud, a village twelve miles outside the city. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 1, 5-6 |
| Dedications | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
published Poems, a volume dedicated to Barbara Leigh Smith
. Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton. 136 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 184 |
| Publishing | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
and Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon)
began writing for the Waverley Journal, by ladies for the cultivation of the memorable, the progressive and the beautiful, which in 1857 was succeeded by the English... |
| Cultural formation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Some historians have speculated about BRP
's sexuality. As a young adult she built a romantic friendship with Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon)
which was for years the most important relationship of her life. It... |
| politics | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
was left in primary charge of the journal in 1859, when Barbara Leigh Smith
(who had married three months after Parkes became editor) began to live outside England for half of the year. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
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