Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist, Artist and Rebel
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- Synopsis
- 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 Making brilliant use of unpublished journals and letters, Pam Hirsch has written a biography that is as lively and powerful as its subject, recreating the woman in all her moods, and placing her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.
- Copyright:
- 1999
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781446413500
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780712665810
- Publisher:
- Random House
- Date of Addition:
- 08/16/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Pimlico
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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