Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist, Artist and Rebel
Pam Hirsch
ASIN: | B004EYSXLQ |
Publisher: | Vintage Digital |
Published: | 7 December, 2010 |
Format: | Kindle eBook |
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Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist, Artist and Rebel
Pam Hirsch
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 Making brilliant use of unpublished journals and letters, Pam Hirsch has written a biography that is as lively and powerful as its subject, recreating the woman in all her moods, and placing her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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