Bodichon, Barbara (1827–1890)

English feminist and campaigner for women's education and suffrage. She wrote Women at Work (1857) and with Bessie Rayner Parkes was a founder of the feminist magazine The Englishwoman's Journal (1858). She helped to found the college for women that became Girton College, Cambridge.

Bodichon was born in London, the daughter of a radical member of Parliament who believed strongly in women's rights, and studied at Bedford College. In 1852 she opened a primary school in London. She was also an accomplished landscape watercolourist.