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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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.
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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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Travel Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Barbara Leigh Smith and Bessie Rayner Parkes travelled throughout Europe without a chaperone, visiting Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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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...

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