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
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. qtd. in Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972. 142n3 |
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, 1994. 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. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985. Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press, 1924. vii The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992, 3 vols. |
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 English Womans JournalEqual or Different: Womens Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp. 112-38. 115 |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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, 1994. 36 |
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, 1994. 8 |
politics | Isa Craig | Together with feminist colleagues Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, Bessie Rayner Parkes
, and Emily Davies
, IC
helped publicise John Stuart Mill's
parliamentary nomination. Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus, 1998. 216 |
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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
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, 1978. 89 |
politics | Lydia Becker | The meeting brought her into touch with the work which responded to the aspirations of her life. Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970. 24 |
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
. |
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