Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon was the most unconventional and influential
leader of the Victorian women's movement. Enormously talented,
energetic and original, she was a feminist, law-reformer, painter,
journalist, the close friend of George Eliot and a cousin of Florence
Nightingale. As a painter, Barbara is now recognised as a vital figure
among Pre-Raphaelite women artists.
As a feminist she led four
great campaigns: for married women's legal status, for the right to
work, the right to vote and to education. Making brilliant use of
unpublished journals and letters, Pam Hirsch has written a biography
that is as lively and powerful as its subject, recreating the woman in
all her moods, and placing her firmly in the context of women's struggle
for equality.
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon : Feminist, Artist and Rebel - Pam Hirsch
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