Mrs. Barbara Bodichon (1827 - 1891)

RA Collection: People and Organisations

Author and painter; promoter of women’s rights. Miss Barbara Leigh Smith, daughter of radical M.P. Benjamin Smith (1783-1860); in 1857 married physician and ethnographer Eugène Bodichon (1810-85).

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Born: 1827

Died: 1891

Gender: Female