Barbara Bodichon

Barbara Bodichon
Barbara Bodichon portrait by Samuel Laurence
Born	Barbara Leigh Smith (1827-04-08)8 April 1827 Whatlington, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Died	11 June 1891(1891-06-11) (aged 64) Robertsbridge, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Other names	Barbara Leigh Smith
Occupation(s)	Educationalist Artist
Known for	Co-founder, Girton College, Cambridge
Spouse	Eugène Bodichon

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, and a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist.^[1][2] She published her influential Brief Summary of the Laws of England concerning Women in 1854 and the English Woman's Journal in 1858. Bodichon co-founded Girton College, Cambridge (1869). Her brother was the Arctic explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith.