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.
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politics | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
became a mentor to a group of young reformers and educational pioneers, including Adelaide Procter
, Emily Faithfull
, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. She sometimes provided meeting space for the group, both... |
politics | Adelaide Procter | The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
(for which AP
, with Barbara Leigh Smith
Bodichon and others, had opened an office) met for the first time. Thomas, Leesther. A Poetry of Deliverance with Tractarian Affinities: A Study of Adelaide A. Procter’s Poetry. Florida State University. 36 |
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... |
politics | Helen Taylor | HT
's radical socialist principles were evident in her work for educational and land reform, as well as in her effort in 1885 to stand for parliament. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
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. |
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 |
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... |
Occupation | Matilda Hays | By 1861 MH
was a partner in the Victoria Press
. Her involvement, however, was short-lived, and she never invested any funds in the press. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 52, 238n10 |
Occupation | John Stuart Mill | JSM
served as independent MP for Westminster from 1865 to 1868. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press. vii The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Occupation | John Stuart Mill | In 1866 JSM
presented to the House of Commons
with parliament's first major suffrage petition. The petition, drafted by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, Jessie Boucherett
, and Emily Davies
, and signed by... |
Occupation | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Involved—with his brother
, William Holman Hunt
, John Everett Millais
, and others—in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
's critique of the reigning artistic principles and values, DGR
has subsequently become one of the most renowned... |
Occupation | Marion Moss | One of her pupils, her niece Hertha Ayrton
(1854-1923), became a suffragist and a friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and George Eliot
. She obtained only third-class degree results at the end her studies... |
Occupation | Emily Davies | |
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 |
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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