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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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
Publishing | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
and Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon)
began writing for the Waverley Journal, by ladies for the cultivation of the memorable, the progressive and the beautiful, which in 1857 was succeeded by the English... |
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, 1996. 159: 254 |
Reception | Christina Rossetti | This best-known poem has had myriad editions, often with illustrations, and generated a wide range of interpretation. It resonates powerfully with CR
's Anglicanism
, and more particularly her experience at the St Mary Magdalene Penitentiary |
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... |
Reception | Matilda Hays | In a letter to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
in 1858, Bessie Rayner Parkes
wrote that all goes on like clockwork at the office, under Max, who is the most methodical of workers, & brings all... |
Residence | Matilda Betham-Edwards | She had there a little house at one end of a picturesque terrace. When Helen C. Black
visited her there, her upstairs study was furnished with a Moroccan carpet, pottery from Greece and other countries... |
Textual Features | Matilda Betham-Edwards | She describes here her journey, with a female friend (actually Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
), to Spain with the particular purpose of seeing the works of Velasquez
, and on to North Africa, in the... |
Textual Features | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
's views on women and work were taken up with enthusiasm by Bessie Rayner Parkes
, Barbara Leigh Smith
, and other Langham Place Group
members who combined their efforts to found the English... |
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