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    Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, a philanthropist and her...
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    Barbara Bodichon Ayrton-Gould (née Ayrton; 3 April 1886 – 14 October 1950) was a British Labour politician and suffragist who served as the Member of Parliament...
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    of Florence Nightingale, and her brother Benjamin was the father of Barbara Bodichon and Benjamin Leigh Smith. John and Joanna had a daughter, (Joanna)...
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    Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college in Cambridge. In 1948, it was granted...
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    National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and befriended Barbara Bodichon and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. After moving to London with her mother...
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  • female employment and equality issues. It was established in 1858 by Barbara Bodichon, Matilda Mary Hays and Bessie Rayner Parkes. Published monthly between...
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    Women's Property Act 1870, which she worked on with the suffragist Barbara Bodichon. One recent biographer, Diane Atkinson, notes that unlike in 1839 and...
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    application was financially supported by Louisa Goldsmid and feminist Barbara Bodichon, who together advanced her enough money to take out patents; the invention...
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  • the Langham Place Circle of the 1850s, which included among others Barbara Bodichon (née Leigh-Smith) and Bessie Rayner Parkes. The group campaigned for...
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  • of Florence Nightingale, and her brother Benjamin was the father of Barbara Bodichon and Benjamin Leigh Smith. Together, John and Joanna were the parents...
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    interested in the education of women, she made friends with Emily Davies, Barbara Bodichon, Frances Buss and others. She gave evidence to a Royal Commission on...
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    pioneer nurse and statistician Florence Nightingale and educationalist Barbara Bodichon, a founder of Girton College, Cambridge. William Smith was born on...
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    amended with no success. One important woman taking up the cause was Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891). She promoted women's rights and in 1854 published A Brief...
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    supported by the income from her American investments. Her friend, Barbara Bodichon helped introduce Blackwell into her circles. She traveled across Europe...
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    to draft a petition and gather signatures, led by women including Barbara Bodichon, Emily Davies, and Elizabeth Garrett. In 1869, John Stuart Mill published...
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    were trying to reach people for a change. With her was a friend named Barbara Bodichon who also published articles and books such as Women and Work (1857)...
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  • earliest feminist writers and activists—such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Barbara Bodichon, and Lydia Becker—were British. The first organised movement for British...
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  • Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women”, published by Barbara Bodichon. 1869: The Subjection of Women published by John Stuart Mill and Harriet...
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    in Robertsbridge include educationalist and women's rights activist Barbara Bodichon, journalist Malcolm Muggeridge,[citation needed], model Heather Mills...
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  • history of George Orwell. He died in 1936 in London. Gould married Barbara Bodichon Ayrton (1888–1950), suffragist and after his death on the Labour National...
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  • Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women", Barbara Bodichon (1854) "Address to the Legislature of New York", Elizabeth Cady Stanton...
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    are juxtaposed on the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood site; the letter to Barbara Bodichon is quoted on the Rossetti Archive site. A Late Picking – poems 1965–74...
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    Pre-Raphaelites were Evelyn De Morgan and the activist and painter Barbara Bodichon. Impressionist painters Berthe Morisot, Marie Bracquemond, and the...
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  • English painter Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) – English sculptor and poet Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891) – English educationalist and landscape artist William Holman...
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    calcareous soil conditions supporting a range of lime-loving flora. Barbara Bodichon is buried there, as is her brother, Arctic explorer, Benjamin Leigh...
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    held in Manchester and heard one of the organisors of the petition, Barbara Bodichon, read a paper entitled Reasons for the Enfranchisement of Women. Becker...
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    attended by Moncure D. Conway, Louisa May Alcott, Arthur Munby, feminists Barbara Bodichon, Lydia Becker, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Elizabeth Malleson. Holland...
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    Women's Property Bill and in 1856 signed a petition for it organized by Barbara Bodichon. She also pushed for licensed prostitution and laws that addressed...
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  • Girton College, Cambridge), is founded at Hitchin, by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon. November 4 – The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published...
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    left workhouse schools. For MABYS, Senior called on Bessie Belloc, Barbara Bodichon and Mrs. Knox for support. Jane married Nassau John Senior, son of...
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