Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

08 April 1827 - 11 June 1891

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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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	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. His campaign for election was supported by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , Bessie Rayner Parkes , Emily Davies , and Isa Craig .
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	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...
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	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 By 1860 rumours were apparently circulating about her...
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 She heard Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon read a paper on the enfranchisement of women, and from that...
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, 1927. 210, 219-20 Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon donated some sketches to decorate the walls...
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, 1993. Because...
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	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...

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