Bodington believed that many scientists lacked the ability to express their findings in a way clear and understandable to non-professionals. She was an avid supporter of the dissemination of scientific literature, believing that scientific knowledge needed to be accessible to the people if it were to be of any real use to society. Bodington was an advocate of neo-Lamarckism. Her book Studies in Evolution and Biology, received a positive review in The American Naturalist. Her work remains an important window into the popular scientific culture of the 19th century and the climate of British imperialism. Her articles where printed in publications such as The American Naturalist, Popular Science Monthly, The Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science, and The Westminster Review. Contributions īodington wrote about a wide variety of subjects including religion, race, marriage and evolution. After her husband received a position as medical superintendent at a hospital, the family moved to New Westminster British Columbia in 1895.
Soon after their arrival, the family settled on a farm in the Fraser River valley. The Boddingtons moved to Canada in 1887 in search of new economic opportunities. The couple had 4 children and remained married until her death in 1897.
Alice was remarried in 1873 to widower and physician Dr George Fowler Bodington. The marriage produced one live child Edward Bell (1866-1937) and ended in divorce in 1869 following Alice's adultery with Captain Tyesen Holrod who may have been Edward's biological father. She married Major General Edward William Derrington Bell in Suffolk in 1857. In 1851 the 10 year old Alice was living with her widowed father in a large house in Suffolk, England, which included seven household servants and a governess. After her mother's death, she was raised primarily by her paternal grandmother. Alice Brooke was born in 1840 to Francis and Juliana Brooke.
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