Bessie Rayner Parkes

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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.

Milestones

16 June 1829

BRP was born in Birmingham, the second of two children.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan.
37
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 183

By 27 May 1865

BRP 's best known text, Essays on Woman's Work, appeared in print.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1961 (1865): 717

1904

A collection appeared of some of the more religious poetry by BRP (now Belloc), titled In Fifty Years.
Parkes, Bessie Rayner. In Fifty Years. Sands.
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23 March 1925

BRP , now Belloc, died at the age of ninety-five.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 189

Biography

Birth and Family

16 June 1829

BRP was born in Birmingham, the second of two children.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan.
37
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 183