Bessie Rayner Parkes
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, 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.
- BirthName: Elizabeth Rayner Parkes
- Nickname: BessieThough called Bessie from the moment of her birth.was formally named Elizabeth, her daughter notes that she wasShe is so named in all scholarly sources.
- Married: BellocAfter her marriage B. Parkes-Belloc, B. R. Belloc, and finally Bessie Rayner Belloc.used a series of forms of her name on her title-pages: