Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Bessie Rayner Parkes
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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.
Alexander Fullerton was heir to estates in Gloucestershire and Northern Ireland, including Ballintoy Castle in County Antrim. He was an officer with the Royal Horse Guards
(the Blues) before his marriage. There was some...
Occupation
Georgiana Fullerton
From the year 1855, GF
's devotion manifested itself in the charitable work for which she became known. On her own death thirty years after this, an obituarist in the Irish Monthly Magazine wrote that...
Textual Production
Georgiana Fullerton
The novel was serialised in the United States by The Catholic World from April 1865. It first appeared in three volumes by 16 September the same year. According to scholar Kathleen Grant Jaeger
, this...
From the age of seventeen Mary Bosanquet had admired the women whom the primitive church made deaconesses because of their ministering work among the poor, and she resolved to model herself on their practical ministry...
Literary responses
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
Three biographies appeared in the years following MBF
's death, and went through many re-issues. Local memory of her remained strong (as instanced by the Memorial Chapel at Leyton Wesleyan church), and so did international...
Textual Production
Emily Faithfull
Bessie Rayner Parkes
cancelled The English Woman's Journal's printing contract with the Victoria Press
, perhaps aware of the impending divorce trial involving EF
.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
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politics
Emily Faithfull
Tired of the London social scene, and determined to do some literary work,
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
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EF
began working at The English Woman's Journal, a periodical involved in all aspects of the women's movement, but directly...
politics
Emily Faithfull
By 1859 The English Woman's Journal was felt to be no longer adequate on its own for promoting women's work, and Jessie Boucherett
suggested the creation of a society which would deal specifically with this...
politics
Emily Faithfull
In an effort to encourage women's participation in the printing trade, SPEW experimented with their own press. EF
agreed to oversee the project. Bessie Parkes
purchased a press and type, and hired a printer to...
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
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Other Life Event
Emily Faithfull
Public interest was heightened by the Codringtons' social status and the sensational details of the case; the trial attracted a high degree of attention. Joseph Parkes
passed on to Bessie Parkes
the rumour that EF
Friends, Associates
Emily Faithfull
EF
suffered in various ways as a result of the trial. The sense that she had prevaricated, at the very least, alienated many of her associates on The English Woman's Journal, including Emily Davies
Textual Production
Emily Faithfull
When EF
went to work at The English Woman's Journal in November 1858, it was under the editorship of Bessie Rayner Parkes
, who had already published poetry and social criticism. When the Victoria Press
