Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

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 Making brilliant use of unpublished journals and letters Pam Hirsch has written a biography that is as lively and powerful as its subject recreating the woman in all her moods and placing her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.

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Pam Hirsch

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• Authors: Pam Hirsch, Hirsch Pam
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1999
• EAN: 9780712665810
• ISBN: 978-0-7126-6581-0
• No. of pages: 418
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 695 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, HISTORY / Modern / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Political activism, c 1500 onwards to present day, Gender studies: women, Diaries, letters and journals, Gender studies: women and girls, History and Archaeology, Political activism / Political engagement