Bessie Rayner Parkes, a late nineteenth-century feminist, focused her writings especially on issues relating to women's work. During her life she published a collection of miscellaneous essays, a collection of vignettes, numerous articles in periodicals, a travel book, and political treatises. Though her feminist writings have been better recognized, her passion was poetry. She published a lengthy philosophical poem in addition to three volumes of poems, some of which were later compiled into a collection.
Milestones
16 June 1829 BRP was born in
Birmingham, the second of two children.
By 27 May 1865 BRP's best known text,
Essays on Woman's Work, appeared in print.
1904 A collection appeared of some of the more religious poetry by BRP (now Belloc), titled
In Fifty Years.
23 March 1925 BRP, now Belloc, died at the age of ninety-five.
