Bessie Rayner Parkes

16 June 1829 - 23 March 1925

Standard Name: Parkes, Bessie Rayner

Birth Name: Elizabeth Rayner Parkes

Nickname: Bessie

Married Name: Elizabeth Rayner Belloc

Bessie Rayner Parkes (later Belloc) , 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.

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Friends, Associates	Emilie Barrington	Emilie Wilson (later EB ) and Emily Faithfull were inseparable Westwater, Martha. The Wilson Sisters. Ohio University Press. 115 friends until they fell out just before Emilie was married. Westwater suggests that they may have been introduced by Bessie Parkes , whose father,...
Friends, Associates	Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon	Bessie Rayner Parkes ' family took a sea-side house at Hastings next to Barbara Leigh Smith 's family.
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Charles	Her friendship with Arthur Stanley , Dean of Westminster Abbey, and his wife, Lady Augusta Stanley , helped her through her mourning period; they encouraged her to try new interests and hopes. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Another dear...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Charles	Combe Edge soon became a noted centre of religous, philanthropic, and social activity. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 343 Marie Belloc Lowndes , who stayed there for many weekends as a child with her mother, Bessie Rayner Belloc (formerly Parkes)
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Gaskell	By 1852, EG 's strong nucleus of important female friends included Barbara Leigh Smith , Bessie Parkes , Adelaide Procter , Octavia and Miranda Hill , and Harriet Martineau . Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 311
Friends, Associates	Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon	Barbara Leigh Smith (later BLSB ) and Bessie Rayner Parkes met Dr Elizabeth Blackwell , then the western world's only qualified female physician. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 58-9
Health	Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon	Her friend Bessie Rayner Parkes was alarmed at her appearance. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 4
Intertextuality and Influence	Marie Belloc Lowndes	MBL decided in her teens that she wanted to be a writer. In 1887, with the encouragement of her mother (who was based in France) the two of them embarked on a winter in the...
Intertextuality and Influence	Christina Rossetti	In From the Antique, a dramatic lyric composed on 28 June 1854, Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press. 3: 449 CR 's speaker laments: It's a weary life, it is: she said:— Doubly blank in a woman's lot: I wish...
Intertextuality and Influence	Marie Belloc Lowndes	The title phrase, in its original Latin, suggests a wealth of allusions. It famously appears on a tombstone in more than one painting of a classical scene, suggesting words spoken by the tomb's occupant, or...
Intertextuality and Influence	George Eliot	Mary Ann Evans had been reading Das Leben Jesu by David Friedrich Strauss when she was persuaded by her new circle of liberal friends at Coventry to take on the task of translating it into...
Intertextuality and Influence	Dora Greenwell	Throughout the essay DG relates her arguments to those of John Stuart Mill , Anna Jameson , and Bessie Rayner Parkes , and though she agrees with them on certain points (mainly their call for...
Leisure and Society	George Eliot	When the Leweses celebrated their move to The Priory and their son Charlie's promotion and twenty-first birthday with a party, Clementia Taylor and one or two other women attended, but Bessie Rayner Parkes did not...
Literary responses	Adelaide Procter	The Athenæum carried a brief review by H. F. Chorley congratulating the journal (and in effect himself) on having early recognised that AP belonged to the Golden Book of English poetesses. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1989 (1865): 799 The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. A...
Literary responses	Isa Craig	One of the readers of the English Woman's Journal, Marian Lewes , wrote to its proprietor, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , to say how deeply she had been affected by Infant Seamstresses. Supposing...

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