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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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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| 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... |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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. 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. 17 |
| Textual Production | Matilda Hays | With Bessie Rayner Parkes
, MH
co-edited the English Woman's Journal, for which she also wrote on such subjects as Harriet Hosmer
and Florence Nightingale
. 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, 120 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| 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 | IC
's earliest contributions to the Waverley Journal (precursor of the English Woman's Journal) were made in conjunction with Bessie Rayner Parkes
, whom she had recently met when Parkes visited Edinburgh. 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. 115-16 Parkes, Bessie Rayner. “A Review of the Last Six Years”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 215-22. 218 |
| 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... |
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