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- Assesses Barbara Bodichon’s significance in the history of the women’s movement in Britain by elaborating a conceptualisation of letters as sources of feminist development
- Explores the significance of letter-exchange in Bodichon’s development into one of the galvanizing figures of the women’s rights movement in Victorian England
- Argues that as the leader of the first women’s suffrage committee in England, Bodichon managed to mobilize partisans and secure signatures by means of chains of friendship letters spreading across the country
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
- Maria Tamboukou, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of East London, UK
This book assesses Barbara Bodichon’s significance in the history of the women’s movement in Britain by elaborating a conceptualisation of letters as sources of feminist development. Bodichon was the leader of the first women’s suffrage committee in England, which collected 1,500 signatures in favour of the female vote – a petition presented in the House of Commons by sympathising MPs to support the amendment of the 1867 Reform Bill. This book explores the significance of letter-exchange in Barbara Bodichon’s feminist becoming as she managed to mobilize partisans and secure signatures by means of chains of friendship letters spreading across the country. For letters functioned as platforms where, concomitantly to her making sense of her experiential input, Bodichon adopted, redefined and challenged circulating discourses – transforming them in the process and hence contributing to the production of feminist knowledge, intersubjectively and collaboratively in dialogue with her addressees. At the crossroads of history of feminism, gender history and history of women’s education, this book explores the significance of letter-exchange in Bodichon’s development into one of the galvanizing figures of the women’s rights movement in Victorian England.
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Roehampton, London, UK
Meritxell Simon-Martin
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Barbara Bodichon’s Epistolary Education
Book Subtitle: Unfolding Feminism
Authors: Meritxell Simon-Martin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41441-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41440-5Published: 01 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41443-6Published: 01 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41441-2Published: 30 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 293
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History, Social History, Women's Studies, Political History