1st Edition

An American Diary 1857-8: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

Edited By Joseph W. Reed, Jr. Copyright 1972
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

‘I am one of the cracked people of the world,’ Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon wrote of herself, ‘and I like to herd with the cracked … queer Americans, democrats, socialists, artists, poor devils or angels; and am never happy in an English genteel family life. I try to do it like other people, but I long always to be off on some wild adventure.’ Reformer, feminist, free-thinker, later to endow the... Read more

Acknowledgments.  1. The English Visitors, From Dickens (1841) to Trollope (1861)  2. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, 1827-91  3. An American Diary, 1857-8.  Notes.  Journals.  Index.

Biography

Joseph W. Reed, Jr.