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.
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politics | Emily Faithfull | Tired of the London social scene, and determined to do some literary work, Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 15 |
politics | Emily Faithfull | By 1859 The English Woman's Journal was felt to be no longer adequate on its own for promoting women's work, and Jessie Boucherett
suggested the creation of a society which would deal specifically with this... |
politics | Emily Faithfull | In an effort to encourage women's participation in the printing trade, SPEW experimented with their own press. EF
agreed to oversee the project. Bessie Parkes
purchased a press and type, and hired a printer to... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | At the meeting the female members of the first Married Women's Property Committee
confirmed the text of BLSB
's parliamentary petition and planned for a signature crusade and then for the presentation of the petition... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Isa Craig
, Emily Davies
, Bessie Parkes
, Jessie Boucherett
, and Elizabeth Garrett
were members of the committee. Later on Clementia Taylor
joined it too. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 154-5 |
Performance of text | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Though HBS
was internationally recognized for her written works she was not, unlike many other contemporary literary figures, a frequent lecturer. While Dickens
, Samuel Clemens
(who published as Mark Twain), Julia Ward Howe
... |
Other Life Event | Emily Faithfull | Public interest was heightened by the Codringtons' social status and the sensational details of the case; the trial attracted a high degree of attention. Joseph Parkes
passed on to Bessie Parkes
the rumour that EF |
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. vii The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Occupation | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | From the age of seventeen Mary Bosanquet had admired the women whom the primitive church made deaconesses because of their ministering work among the poor, and she resolved to model herself on their practical ministry... |
Occupation | Georgiana Fullerton | From the year 1855, GF
's devotion manifested itself in the charitable work for which she became known. On her own death thirty years after this, an obituarist in the Irish Monthly Magazine wrote that... |
Occupation | Matilda Hays | As well as co-founding and co-editing the English Woman's Journal with Bessie Rayner Parkes
(between 1857 and 1862), Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>English Woman’s Journal</span>”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38. 116, 119-20 Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press. 185 |
Occupation | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | At about this time she painted her finest water-colour, a large painting of the plain of Blidah in Algiers, showing honey-coloured sand, sparsely covered with grey olive trees, blue cacti, and alfa [sic]... |
Occupation | Matilda Hays | By 1861 MH
was a partner in the Victoria Press
. Her involvement, however, was short-lived, and she never invested any funds in the press. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 52, 238n10 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Charles | EC
was a diligent researcher and a great reader of historical biography (though not of novels). While she was working on this book, Bessie Rayner Belloc (formerly Parkes)went to great trouble to obtain every... |
Literary responses | Anna Mary Howitt | Mary Howitt
called the Boadicea picture very fine, truly sublime. Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press. 216 Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press. 217 |
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