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.
Black and white photograph of Barbara Bodichon in profile, looking towards the right. Her hair is pulled back in a bun, with some part in a single plait. She is wearing a white blouse with a ruffled neckline, and a black jacket with buttons.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Jessie White Mario
While visiting Italy, JWM stayed with Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning at Casa Guidi. (Years later they had an unpleasant public debate over Italian politics.) She met Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon in Rome, beginning...
Education Jessie White Mario
In 1857 JWM recounted these failed admission attempts in a letter to women's rights advocate Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon . Bodichon relates JWM 's struggle in Women and Work (1857).
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press.
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O’Connor, Maura. The Romance of Italy and the English Political Imagination. St Martin’s Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Martineau
Female Industry is a wide-ranging review covering the 1851 census results, the reports of Poor Law Commissioners on women and children in agriculture, the Governesses' Benevolent Institution , and The Lowell Offering, as well...
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.
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The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press.
His campaign for election was supported by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , Bessie Rayner Parkes , Emily Davies , and Isa Craig .
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...
Friends, Associates Florence Nightingale
FN 's dissatisfaction with her domestic situation intensified after she returned to England. She came to rely on friends for comfort and intellectual stimulation. She was close to her cousin Hilary Bonham Carter , especially...
Family and Intimate relationships Florence Nightingale
FN 's first cousins included Hilary Bonham-Carter and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon . Bodichon and her siblings, being born out of wedlock, were largely ignored by the Nightingales. However, FN and Bodichon corresponded later in life.
Textual Production Caroline Norton
This was the year of the founding of the Married Women's Property Committee and of Barbara Leigh Smith 's pamphlet A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women. But...
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...
Publishing Margaret Oliphant
Blackwood's published MO 's severe critique of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 's Brief Summary . . . of the Laws Concerning Women.
Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research.
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Textual Features Margaret Oliphant
Oliphant's views on the status of women shifted somewhat with time. She dismissed the women's suffrage petition, and represented women who supported suffrage as unnatural. Answering Barbara Bodichon , she argued that marriage was...
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&gt”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38.
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George Eliot , while acknowledging that...
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...

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