Barbara Bodichon
British artist
Died when: 64 years 64 days (770 months)Star Sign: Aries
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) 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 (1869).Her brother was the Arctic explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith.
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