Fonds GB 106 7BMC - McCRIMMON Barbara: papers related to Barbara Bodichon [nee Leigh Smith]

1 A box (80 items)

GB 106 7BMC 1826-1989 fonds 1 A box (80 items) McCrimmon , Barbara , fl.1992 , librarian and collector

Bodichon , Barbara , nee Leigh Smith , 1827-1891 , artist and women's activist

Barbara McCrimmon (fl 1992) was a well-known American book and manuscript collector. She wrote extensively in American library theory and philosophy and was a regular reviewer in a number of periodicals. In 1992 McCrimmon donated 77 letters written by Barbara Leigh Bodichon to The Women's (previously Fawcett) Library along with three articles written by McCrimmon.

Barbara Bodichon (1827-1891) née Leigh Smith was born in 1827. Her father was a progressive educationalist and MP for Norwich. Bodichon was the cousin of Florence Nightingale. Bodichon was educated at Westminster Infants School, a pioneering 'ragged school' and later at Bedford College. Thanks to her father Bodichon was financially independent. In 1852 Bodichon opened Portman Hill School in Paddington, a non-denominational, non-conventional school of mixed social class, which she ran together with Elizabeth Whitehead. Bodichon campaigned for women's rights, collecting signatures for the Married Women's Property Bill in 1856 and writing 'Women and Work' in 1857. Also in 1857 she married Eugene Bodichon a French doctor. She helped finance 'The Englishwoman's Journal' and was co-proprietor, with Miss Bessie Rayner Parkes of the Journal from 1858 to 1864. Bodichon was on the committee of the Female Middle Class Emigration Society from 1861 to 1886. Bodichon also read the first papers on suffrage in 1865, supported the first suffrage petition in 1866 and became Secretary of the Suffrage Committee in 1867. Bodichon fought for higher education for women and helped Emily Davies to found the college that later became Girton. Barbara Bodichon died in 1891.

This collection of autograph letters was donated to The Fawcett Library in 1992 by Barbara McCrimmon ( a well known American book and manuscript collector) along with 3 academic papers drawing on her collection for source material.

The archive consists of 77 letters to Bodichon mainly from Helen Taylor, James Joseph Sylvester, Marianne North, the Hill Family and various other correspondents (1827-c 1891); offprints of papers written by the donor related to Helen Taylor (1978), James Joseph Sylvester (1981) and Marianne North (1989).

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

English

See also The Women's Library Autograph Letter collection (Strand 9) where there are a number of Barbara Bodichon's letters, including some from Miss Maria Rye (q.v.) and from Lord Shaftesbury, on emigration.

Bodichon's main correspondence and papers are deposited at Cambridge University's Girton College Library, which also holds her correspondence with Bessie Rayner Parkes and others (1847-80) (ref. BRP V, X).

Maria Rye 'The Colonies and their requirements' - A paper read at the meeting of the Association for the Promotion of Social Science, held at Dublin, Aug 1861: Transactions of the Meeting 1862, also printed in 'The Womens Journal' vol viii, no. 45, 1 Nov 1861, pp. 165-177)

Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

08/02/2008 Taylor , Helen , 1831-1907 , suffragist Women Artists Women artists Rights of special groups Womens rights Womens status Authors Writers Internal politics Womens suffrage Electoral systems Sylvester , James Joseph , 1814-1897 , mathematician Bodichon , Barbara , 1827-1891 , nee Leigh Smith , artist and women's activist Sex Sex distribution

This collection of autograph letters was donated to The Fawcett Library in 1992 by Barbara McCrimmon ( a well known American book and manuscript collector) along with 3 academic papers drawing on her collection for source material.

The archive consists of 77 letters to Bodichon mainly from Helen Taylor, James Joseph Sylvester, Marianne North, the Hill Family and various other correspondents (1827-c 1891); offprints of papers written by the donor related to Helen Taylor (1978), James Joseph Sylvester (1981) and Marianne North (1989).

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

• English

• Latin

English

See also The Women's Library Autograph Letter collection (Strand 9) where there are a number of Barbara Bodichon's letters, including some from Miss Maria Rye (q.v.) and from Lord Shaftesbury, on emigration.

Bodichon's main correspondence and papers are deposited at Cambridge University's Girton College Library, which also holds her correspondence with Bessie Rayner Parkes and others (1847-80) (ref. BRP V, X).

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English