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 | 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 | 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 |
Friends, Associates | Helen Taylor | HT
moved in political and social circles that included Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Louisa Garrett Anderson
, Emily Davies
, Elizabeth Wolstenholme
, Frances Mary Buss
, Dorothea Beale
, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton University Press. 186 Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. xxvii |
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
... |
Friends, Associates | Julia Wedgwood | This friendship was cemented during visits to Linlathen in Forfarshire, the home of Thomas Erskine
, who was himself a major spiritual influence on JW
. Her letters to Gurney mention meetings with Darwin |
Friends, Associates | Anna Kingsford | AK
's wide-ranging interests brought her into contact with an array of people known to a greater or lesser extent in the intellectual life of the day. Through the women's movement she met Barbara Bodichon |
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 |
Health | Christina Rossetti | She suffered a relapse in spring of 1872. Convalescing in Sussex, she made a visit to her friend Barbara Bodichon
at Scalands Cottage near Hastings. She felt that her recovery from what came close... |
Health | Anna Mary Howitt | She seems to have had a nervous breakdown after Ruskin
destroyed her confidence in her painting ability, a breakdown which expressed itself through spiritualist beliefs: she claimed to be directed in her actions by invisible... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | In From the Antique, a dramatic lyric composed on 28 June 1854, Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press. 3: 449 Doubly blank in a woman's lot: I wish... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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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