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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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| Textual Features | George Eliot | This story is equally remarkable for the portraits of Mr Tryan (the Evangelical clergyman who not only converts Janet to his beliefs but succeeds in sparking her will to regeneration) and of Janet herself, but... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | She wrote this article at the height of the parliamentary debates on the legal rights of married women. Despite being very ill, CFC
was determined to participate in this discourse and give aid to a... |
| Textual Production | Adelaide Procter | AP
was involved with her reform-minded friends, including Bessie Rayner Parkes
, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, and Matilda M. Hays
, in helping to found the English Woman's Journal in 1858. She later contributed... |
| Textual Production | Anna Mary Howitt | John Ruskin
's severe censure of a painting intended as her masterpiece (a heroic depiction of Boadiceabrooding over her wrongs, drawn from Barbara Leigh Smith
) Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press, 1955. 216 Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989. 43 Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 205 |
| Textual Production | Anna Mary Howitt | Two months later he reported it as attracting much favourable attention when hung at the Portland Gallery
, while AMH
's mother wrote that it was immediately sold, and brought in two commissions. Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 171 |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Jessie Boucherett | During the 1860s JB
wrote a number of articles for the English Woman's Journal, the publication begun by Bessie Rayner Parkes
and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
(and of whose successor journal she was later editor). Lacey, Candida Ann, editor. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group. Routledge, 1987. 225-77 |
| Textual Production | Bessie Rayner Parkes | In 1848 BRP
and her friend Barbara Leigh Smith
first began working together to try to publish their writings. Despite an editor's warning not to cast aside the prospect of domestic happiness, qtd. in Rendall, Jane. “Friendship and Politics: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and Bessie Rayner Parkes”. Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of Gender in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Susan Mendus and Jane Rendall, Routledge, 1989, pp. 136-70. 149 |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | George Eliot | This novel opens at the time of the death of Lorenzo de Medici
, when the Florence that he ruled was riven by conflict among the various political intellectual groupings that supported the new learning... |
| Travel | Jessie White Mario | JWM
left Italy and travelled to St Ives in Cornwall to convalesce in the company of her friend Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972. 112, 141-2n3 |
| Travel | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
travelled, in company with Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, through France and Spain to Algeria, particularly Oran. Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, 1898, p. vi, 354 pp. 233 |
| Travel | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
spent a week with George Eliot
, George Henry Lewes
, and Barbara Bodichon
at an old rectory at Swanmore in the Isle of Wight, which Bodichon had rented for a Christmas holiday. Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, 1898, p. vi, 354 pp. 250-1 |
| Travel | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
met in Paris intending to return to England together. Instead they rented a chalet together near La Celle St Cloud, a village twelve miles outside the city. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 1, 5-6 |
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