Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, and a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist.[1][2] She published her influential Brief Summary of the Laws of England concerning Women in 1854 and the English Woman's Journal in 1858. Bodichon co-founded Girton College, Cambridge (1869). Her brother was the Arctic explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith.
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Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, and a leading mid-19th-century...
of Florence Nightingale, and her brother Benjamin was the father of BarbaraBodichon and Benjamin Leigh Smith. John and Joanna had a daughter, (Joanna)...
National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and befriended BarbaraBodichon and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. After moving to London with her mother...
application was financially supported by Louisa Goldsmid and feminist BarbaraBodichon, who together advanced her enough money to take out patents; the invention...
to draft a petition and gather signatures, led by women including BarbaraBodichon, Emily Davies, and Elizabeth Garrett. In 1869, John Stuart Mill published...
Women's Property Act 1870, which she worked on with the suffragist BarbaraBodichon. One recent biographer, Diane Atkinson, notes that unlike in 1839 and...
Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women", BarbaraBodichon (1854) "Address to the Legislature of New York", Elizabeth Cady Stanton...
in Robertsbridge include educationalist and women's rights activist BarbaraBodichon, journalist Malcolm Muggeridge,[citation needed], model Heather Mills...
Pre-Raphaelites were Evelyn De Morgan and the activist and painter BarbaraBodichon. Impressionist painters Berthe Morisot, Marie Bracquemond, and the...
supported by the income from her American investments. Her friend, BarbaraBodichon helped introduce Blackwell into her circles. She traveled across Europe...
earliest feminist writers and activists—such as Mary Wollstonecraft, BarbaraBodichon, and Lydia Becker—were British. The first organised movement for British...
are juxtaposed on the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood site; the letter to BarbaraBodichon is quoted on the Rossetti Archive site. A Late Picking – poems 1965–74...
Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women”, published by BarbaraBodichon. 1869: The Subjection of Women published by John Stuart Mill and Harriet...
English painter Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) – English sculptor and poet BarbaraBodichon (1827–1891) – English educationalist and landscape artist William Holman...
held in Manchester and heard one of the organisors of the petition, BarbaraBodichon, read a paper entitled Reasons for the Enfranchisement of Women. Becker...
and Pencil Club" included the diarist Arthur Munby and the feminists BarbaraBodichon, Lydia Becker, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Elizabeth Malleson. Clementia...
Women's Property Bill and in 1856 signed a petition for it organized by BarbaraBodichon. She also pushed for licensed prostitution and laws that addressed...
interested in the education of women, she made friends with Emily Davies, BarbaraBodichon, Frances Buss and others. She gave evidence to a Royal Commission on...
Girton College, Cambridge), is founded at Hitchin, by Emily Davies and BarbaraBodichon. November 4 – The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published...
women's suffrage was the Langham Place Circle of the 1850s, led by BarbaraBodichon (née Leigh-Smith) and Bessie Rayner Parkes. They also campaigned for...
[clarification needed] On 21 November 1865, Jessie Boucherett with the help of BarbaraBodichon and Helen Taylor brought up the idea of a parliamentary reform.. They...
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