Barbara Bodichon. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon was an English educationalist and artist, and a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist.
She published her influential Brief Summary of the Laws of England concerning Women in 1854 and the English Woman's Journal in 1858. Bodichon co-founded Girton College, Cambridge.
Her brother was the Arctic explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith. Barbara Bodichon was the extra-marital child of Anne Longden, a milliner from Alfreton, Derbyshire and a Whig politician, Benjamin Ben Leigh Smith, the only son of the Radical abolitionist William Smith.
He had four sisters. One, Frances Fanny Smith, married William Nightingale and produced a daughter, Florence; another, Joanna Maria, married John Bonham-Carter MP and founded the Bonham Carter family.
Leigh Smith's home was in Marylebone, London, but from 1816 he inherited and bought property near Hastings: Brown's Farm near Robertsbridge, with an extant house built about 1700, and Crowham Manor, Westfield, which included 200 acres. Although a member of the landed gentry, Smith held radical views. He was a Dissenter, a Unitarian, a supporter of free trade, and a benefactor to the poor. In 1826 he bore the cost of building a school for the inner city poor at Vincent Square, Westminster, and paid a penny a week towards the fees for each child, the same amount paid by their parents. Smith met Anne Longden whil
She published her influential Brief Summary of the Laws of England concerning Women in 1854 and the English Woman's Journal in 1858. Bodichon co-founded Girton College, Cambridge.
Her brother was the Arctic explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith. Barbara Bodichon was the extra-marital child of Anne Longden, a milliner from Alfreton, Derbyshire and a Whig politician, Benjamin Ben Leigh Smith, the only son of the Radical abolitionist William Smith.
He had four sisters. One, Frances Fanny Smith, married William Nightingale and produced a daughter, Florence; another, Joanna Maria, married John Bonham-Carter MP and founded the Bonham Carter family.
Leigh Smith's home was in Marylebone, London, but from 1816 he inherited and bought property near Hastings: Brown's Farm near Robertsbridge, with an extant house built about 1700, and Crowham Manor, Westfield, which included 200 acres. Although a member of the landed gentry, Smith held radical views. He was a Dissenter, a Unitarian, a supporter of free trade, and a benefactor to the poor. In 1826 he bore the cost of building a school for the inner city poor at Vincent Square, Westminster, and paid a penny a week towards the fees for each child, the same amount paid by their parents. Smith met Anne Longden whil
Wikipedia ...