Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

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 l...