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.
Sepia toned photograph of Bessie Rayner Parkes, seated on an upholstered chair, with an ornate table next to her. Her hands are clasped in her lap, she is wearing a dark dress with a voluminous skirt and long sleeves. She has dark, wavy, shoulder-length hair.

Milestones

16 June 1829
BRP was born in Birmingham, the second of two children.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
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Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
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, 1904.
prelims
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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, 2001.
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, 1941.
37
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 183

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