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Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and George Eliot: an examination of their work and friendship

By Hirsch , Pam

Book information

Publisher
Random House;Anglia Polytechnic University
Year
1992
ISBN
9781446413500, 0712665811, 1446413500
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2257016 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
History;Literature;Sociology;Mass media;Performing

Description

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 Making brilliant use of unpublished journals and letters, Pam Hirsch has written a biography that is as lively and powerful as its subject, recreating the woman in all her moods, and placing her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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