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Trailblazer: the Life and Work of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

Francis Holland School 39 Graham Terrace, London, United Kingdom

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon was one of the most intriguing of Victorian heroines: unconventional, illegitimate, yet at the centre of a luminous circle of influential Victorians, including Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Florence Nightingale, the Rossettis and Gertrude Jekyll. She was someone who opened many of the doors we walk through today with barely a backward […]

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