Trailblazer : Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon : the first feminist to change our world /
Jane Robinson.
- 397 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
The trailblazer -- Names and no names, up until 1834 -- Planted in Sussex soil, 1834-1848 -- Ye newe generation, 1848-1851 -- Venus without corsets : professional life, 1852-1855 -- Barbara, whom I love : personal life, 1852-1855 -- Where are the men who are good?, 1855-1857 -- Boadicea in America : personal life, 1857-1858 -- Women and work : professional life, 1857-1860 -- Madame Bodichon, 1858-1862 -- Gellie birds and deaf-adders, 1863-1866 -- Opening doors, 1866-1869 -- Parallel lives, 1869-1877 -- Love in new ways, 1877-1885 -- Living on aspiration, from 1885 to the present.
"You have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done. Name any 'modern' human rights movement, and she was a pioneer: feminism, equal opportunities, diversity, inclusion, mental health awareness, Black Lives Matter. While her name has been omitted from too many history books, it was Barbara that opened the doors for more famous names to walk through. And her influence owed as much to who she was as to what she did: people loved her for her robust sense of humour, cheerfulness and indiscriminate acts of kindness. This is a celebration of the life of the founder of Britain's suffrage movement: campaigner for equal opportunity in the workplace, the law, at home and beyond. Co-founder of Girton, the first university college for women, a committed activist for human rights, fervently anti-slavery, she was also one of Victorian England's finest female painters. Jane Robinson's brilliant new book shines a light on a remarkable woman who lived on her own terms and to whom we owe a huge debt."-- https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443503/trailblazer-by-robinson-jane/9780857527776
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Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, 1827-1891 --Political and social views.
Women social reformers--History--England--19th century. Social reformers--History--England--19th century. Social change--History--Great Britain--19th century. Women--Suffrage--History--Great Britain--19th century. First-wave feminism--History--Great Britain--19th century.