Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon NPG x200062

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Disdéri, copied by Emery Walker Ltd

Artist and women’s activist Barbara Bodichon was the illegitimate daughter of radical Liberal MP Benjamin Smith. A private income gave her independence and enabled her to train as a professional artist. As the leader of the progressive Langham Place group, Bodichon led women’s rights campaigns to receive legal recognition. Her efforts contributed to the passing of the Married Women's Property Act of 1870, finally allowing married women to become the legal owners of any money they earned and to inherit property. This was extended to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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