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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Textual Features	George Eliot	This story is equally remarkable for the portraits of Mr Tryan (the Evangelical clergyman who not only converts Janet to his beliefs but succeeds in sparking her will to regeneration) and of Janet herself, but...
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	Janet Hamilton	The vigour and originality of her voice on women's issues requires greater recognition, ranging as it does from the satiric Crinoline, to Contrasted Scenes from Real Life which juxtaposes the earthly lot of Lady Emily Hay
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...
Textual Production	Isa Craig	This volume included contributions by herself, Bessie Rayner Parkes , and Mary Howitt , as well as two poems by the Rossettis: Christina 's A Royal Princess and Dante Gabriel 's Sudden Light. The...
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.
Textual Production	Isa Craig	Its inaugural issues included several signed articles by her. She also enlisted contributions from Bessie Rayner Parkes , including an article she had previously published in the English Woman's Journal. IC also arranged for...
Textual Production	Emily Faithfull	When EF went to work at The English Woman's Journal in November 1858, it was under the editorship of Bessie Rayner Parkes , who had already published poetry and social criticism. When the Victoria Press
Textual Production	Jessie Boucherett	During the 1860s JB wrote a number of articles for the English Woman's Journal, the publication begun by Bessie Rayner Parkes and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (and of whose successor journal she was later editor). Lacey, Candida Ann, editor. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group. Routledge, 1987. 225-77
Textual Production	Ann Bridge	Susan Lowndes (daughter of novelist Marie Belloc Lowndes and so grand-daughter of suffragist Bessie Rayner Parkes ) was an old friend of AB and was resident in Portugal with her Portuguese husband. The two of...
Textual Production	Georgiana Fullerton	The novel was serialised in the United States by The Catholic World from April 1865. It first appeared in three volumes by 16 September the same year. According to scholar Kathleen Grant Jaeger , this...
Textual Production	Adelaide Procter	AP was involved with her reform-minded friends, including Bessie Rayner Parkes , Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , and Matilda M. Hays , in helping to found the English Woman's Journal in 1858. She later contributed...
Textual Production	George Eliot	On 3 February 1858 GE declined an invitation from Bessie Rayner Parkes to write for the new English Woman's Journal. She explained, in strictest confidence, that she had given up writing articles in order...
Textual Production	Adelaide Procter	According to Bessie Rayner Parkes , Procter had to be urged to publish the collection. The first series, which was issued at a price of 5 shillings by Bell and Daldy , had another edition...
Textual Production	Emily Faithfull	Bessie Rayner Parkes cancelled The English Woman's Journal's printing contract with the Victoria Press , perhaps aware of the impending divorce trial involving EF . Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994. 17

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