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.
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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Travel Adelaide Procter
The year-long visit in 1853-54 to her aunt Emily de Viry , a Catholic convert who was associated with the court at Turin, had a formative influence on AP 's life and religious beliefs...
Friends, Associates Adelaide Procter
Other intimate feminist friends of AP 's adult years, in addition to Matilda Hays , were Bessie Rayner Parkes and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon . Procter was also a member of the Portfolio Society ...
Occupation John Stuart Mill
JSM served as independent MP for Westminster from 1865 to 1868.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press.
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The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press.
His campaign for election was supported by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , Bessie Rayner Parkes , Emily Davies , and Isa Craig .
Birth Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL , the elder of two children, was born at 11 George Street, Marylebone, in lodgings, since her mother had returned from France for the birth but her grandmother did not want it to...
Textual Production Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL 's four-volume autobiography closed with A Passing World, posthumously published. It does not mention the fact that its title re-uses that of one of her mother 's books and echoes that of one of her own.
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Family and Intimate relationships Marie Belloc Lowndes
Her English mother, who conducted her distinguished feminist writing career as Bessie Rayner Parkes , had married at thirty-eight (after converting to Catholicism about three years earlier). She met her husband while renting a chalet...
Intertextuality and Influence Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL decided in her teens that she wanted to be a writer. In 1887, with the encouragement of her mother (who was based in France) the two of them embarked on a winter in the...
Textual Features Marie Belloc Lowndes
She was asked by Reginald Smith , editor of the Cornhill, to contribute an account of her mother 's young days, but she did not feel I could assent to his wish.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan.
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Publishing Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL made her views known to the public through the columns of the Times on a variety of political and literary issues: women's suffrage, food rationing during the first world war (on which she offered...
Intertextuality and Influence Marie Belloc Lowndes
The title phrase, in its original Latin, suggests a wealth of allusions. It famously appears on a tombstone in more than one painting of a classical scene, suggesting words spoken by the tomb's occupant, or...
Friends, Associates Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
During the 1860s she and her husband formed a friendship with Bessie Rayner Parkes .
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
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Travel Anna Brownell Jameson
By this date ABJ was travelling in Italy with Bessie Parkes .
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press.
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politics Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ became a mentor to a group of young reformers and educational pioneers, including Adelaide Procter , Emily Faithfull , and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon . She sometimes provided meeting space for the group, both...
Textual Features Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ 's views on women and work were taken up with enthusiasm by Bessie Rayner Parkes , Barbara Leigh Smith , and other Langham Place Group members who combined their efforts to found the English...
Textual Features Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ lent her writings as well as her moral support to these young feminists, by permitting extracts from her work to appear in the Waverley Journal during the period when Bessie Rayner Parkes and others...

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Parkes, Bessie Rayner. Vignettes. Alexander Strahan, 1866.