Barbara Bodichon
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Barbara Bodichon, born Barbara Leigh Smith, was an English educationalist, artist, and philanthropist, a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist.
Barbara Bodichon portrait by Samuel Laurence, 1880 (from a sketch in 1861)
Ventnor, painted by Barbara Bodichon
Barbara Bodichon's name on the Reformers' Monument, Kensal Green Cemetery
Emily Davies
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Sarah Emily Davies was an English feminist who founded Girton College, Cambridge. She campaigned as a suffragist and for women's rights to university education.
Barbara Bodichon
…1854, she published her influential A Brief Summary of the Laws of England Concerning Women, and in 1858 the English Woman's Journal. With her friend Emily Davies, in 1869 Bodichon co-founded Girton College, Cambridge. Her greatest skill is said to have been as a facilitator. Barbara Leigh Smith was born on 8…
Emily Davies portrait by Rudolph Lehmann, 1880
Girton College, Cambridge
From left to right in foreground: Frances Balfour, Millicent Fawcett, Ethel Snowden, Emily Davies (with black bonnet) and Sophie Bryant