Drawings by Barbara Bodichon (1827-1891)

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• Barbara Bodichon and the Studies of Elizabeth Siddal with Irises in Her Hair: Head Study of Lizzie Siddal by Bodichon; Head Study of Lizzie Siddal by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; and Head and Torso Study of Lizzie Siddal by Anna Mary Howitt

Bibliography

Burton, Hester. Barbara Bodichon 1827-1891. London: John Murray, 1949.

Frederick, Margaretta. "Politics and Paint: The Life Work of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon." Pre-Raphaelite Sisters. Art, Poetry and Female Agency in Victorian Britain. Edited by Glenda Youde and Robert Wilkes. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022. 122-23.

Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist, Artist and Radical. London: Chatto & Windus, 1998.

Frederick, Margaretta. "Politics and Paint: The Life Work of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon." Pre-Raphaelite Sisters. Art, Poetry and Female Agency in Victorian Britain. Edited by Glenda Youde and Robert Wilkes, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022. 121-48.

Lanigan, Dennis T. Beauty's Awakening. Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and Their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection. Edited by Sonia Delre, Ottawa: National Gallery of Canda, 2015, cat. 56, 140-41.

Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists. Manchester: Manchester Cities Art Gallery, 1997, 104.

Robinson, Jane. Trailblazer: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: The First Feminist to Change Our World. London: Doubleday, 2024.

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