Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon NPG D31926

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Samuel Laurence

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 campaigns demanding women's rights to receive legal recognition, as well as to work, vote, and gain access to education. 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... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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