Barbara Leigh Smith

E689062

Barbara Leigh Smith, later known as Barbara Bodichon, was a pioneering 19th-century English feminist, educational reformer, and co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Barbara Leigh Smith canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf English feminist
co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge
educational reformer
person
watercolourist
women's rights activist
activeYearsEnd 1891
activeYearsStart 1850
alsoKnownAs Barbara Bodichon
artForm watercolour painting
causeOfDeath cerebral haemorrhage
coFounded English Woman's Journal
Girton College, Cambridge
countryOfCitizenship England
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1827-04-08
dateOfDeath 1891-06-11
educatedAt Bedford College, London
linked to: Bedford College
familyName Smith
genre landscape art
givenName Barbara
Leigh
influenced development of women's higher education in Britain
knownFor campaigning for married women's property rights
founding one of the first women's suffrage committees in Britain
promoting women's access to higher education
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
memberOf Langham Place Group
movement first-wave feminism
women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom
notableStudent students of Girton College, Cambridge
notableWork Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women
English Woman's Journal
Women and Work
occupation artist
feminist writer
journalist
parent Benjamin Leigh Smith
partOf 19th-century British feminism
placeOfBirth Whatlington, Sussex, England
placeOfDeath Robertsbridge, Sussex, England
religion Unitarianism
residence Algeria
London
linked to: London, England
sexOrGender female
sibling Benjamin Leigh Smith (explorer)
spouse Eugène Bodichon

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Barbara Bodichon birthName Barbara Leigh Smith