Barbara Bodichon

A nineteenth century writer, reformer, and traveller. Bodichon was extremely active in political and artistic circles as a landscape painter, writer, and women’s rights campaigner. She founded The English Woman’s Journal and was close friends with George Eliot and the Pre-Raphaelite painting circle. Her grandfather, an MP, had been a patron of the painter John Opie, known as 'the Cornish Wonder'.

She owned the Poor House at Zennor, which she left in her will to the famous garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. She became ill in Zennor, before returning to Hastings, where she died.