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Jonathan Parry: Being Barbara Bodichon, 1 August 2024
Trailblazer: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, the First Feminist to Change Our World
by Jane Robinson.
Doubleday, 397 pp., £25, February,978 0 85752 777 6 Show More
by Jane Robinson.
Doubleday, 397 pp., £25, February,
“... which he established in Vincent Square in 1826 under the guidance of the educationalist James Buchanan, and where his daughter was enrolled. Buchanan’s childlike imagination and simplicity instilled in Bodichon and many other pupils an awareness of the natural world and the beauty of music and art. In 1849, aged 22, she began attending the ... ”