Crawford, Anne, editor. The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women. Europa Publications, 1983.
Elizabeth Parkes
Standard Name: Parkes, Elizabeth
Used Form: Eliza Priestley
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Birth | Marie Belloc Lowndes | |
Cultural formation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
was born into an English, professional, well-known, liberal, Unitarian
family. Levine, Philippa. Feminist Lives in Victorian England: Private Roles and Public Commitment. Basil Blackwell, 1990. 16-17 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2024, 2 vols. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 36 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
's mother, Eliza Priestley
, was born in America, in a town called Northumberland, on the Susquehanna river, and was the eldest grand-daughter of the scientist, Joseph Priestley, Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 36 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
's American-born maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Parkes
(widowed before Marie's birth), had held aloof from her daughter Bessie's political beliefs and struggles, but she was later happy to have Bessie and her family to stay... |
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