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Barbara Bodichon was born at Watlington, Norfolk, England on the 8th of April 1827; the daughter of Benjamin Smith, long M. P. for Norwich.
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Barbara Bodichon was born at Watlington, Norfolk, England on the 8th of April 1827; the daughter of Benjamin Smith, long M. P. for Norwich.
Bodichon studied at the Ladies' College in Bedford. Here she was given instruction for work as a professional artist rather than an art instructor. In 1852, after she had enrolled in Bedford College.
Barbara early showed a force of character and catholicity of sympathy that later won her a prominent place among philanthropists and social workers.
Although wintering many years in Algiers, as she was married to a Frenchman, she continued to lead the movements she had initiated in behalf of Englishwomen. In 1869 she published her Brief Summary of the Laws of England concerning Women, which had a useful effect in helping forward the passage of the Married Women's Property Act.
In 1866, co-operating with Miss Emily Davies, she matured a scheme for the extension of university education to women, and the first small experiment at Hitchin developed into Girton College, to which Mme Bodichon gave liberally of her time and money.
With all her public interests she found time for society and her favourite art of painting. She studied under William H. Hunt, and her water-colours, exhibited at the Salon, the Academy and elsewhere, showed great originality and talent, and were admired by Corot and Daubigny.
Her London salon included many of the literary and artistic celebrities of her day; she was George Eliot's most intimate friend, and, according to her, the first to recognize the authorship of Adam Bede. Her personal appearance is said to be described in that of Romola. Mme Bodichon died at Robertsbridge, Sussex, on the 11th of June 1891.
Bodichon was one of the founders of "The Ladies of Langham Place", one of the first organised women's movements in Britain. In 1858, she set up the English Women's Journal, an organ for discussing employment and equality issues directly concerning women, in particular manual or intellectual industrial employment, expansion of employment opportunities, and reform of laws pertaining to the sexes. She developed and opened Portman Hall School in Paddington, in conjunction with Elizabeth Whitehead. In collaboration with Emily Davies, she presented the idea of university education for women.
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In 1857 she married an eminent French physician, Dr Eugene Bodichon.
