Bessie Rayner Parkes

16 June 1829 - 23 March 1925

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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Publishing	Anna Mary Howitt	During her time in Munich and her briefer time in Oberammergau, AMH wrote articles which were published in the Ladies' Companion, the Athenæum, and Household Words. Her description of the Oberammergau passion...
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 Ruskin had demanded in a letter: What do you know about Boadicea? Leave such subjects alone and paint me a pheasant's wing. Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press. 217 Bessie Rayner Parkes
Friends, Associates	Mary Howitt	MH served on the reception committee for Harriet Beecher Stowe at the time of her visit to England in April 1853. She had by that time become friendly with titled people and with members of...
Literary responses	Mary Catherine Hume	Bessie Rayner Parkes recommended this work to George Eliot . Eliot was not pleased with it and wrote, Heaven preserve me from reading Miss Hume's poems! . . . I was quite cowed by their...
Literary responses	Violet Hunt	Sooner or Later received (perhaps excessively) high praise from a number of VH 's contemporaries. Marie Belloc Lowndes (daughter of Bessie Rayner Parkes ) wrote in The Merry Wives of Westminster, 1946, that it...
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. 7
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...
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. 13
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. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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. 169

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