poet, essayist and journalist. Bessie Rayner Parkes was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, daughter of Joseph Parkes (1796–1865), a prosperous solicitor...

and educator Bessie Boehm Moore (1902–1995), American educator Diamond Bessie (1854–1877), American murder victim Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925), English...

Matilda Mary Hays and Bessie Rayner Parkes, with others, Bodichon being the major shareholder and Samuel Courtauld also held shares. Parkes was the chief editor...

Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes also became a writer. Belloc's mother Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925) was a writer, activist and an advocate for women's equality...

Mary Hays and Bessie Rayner Parkes established the first feminist British periodical, the English Woman's Journal, with Bessie Parkes the chief editor...

English literature into French. Their son, Louis, would later marry Bessie Rayner Parkes, a prominent English feminist who remained a close personal friend...

poet and author Alex Preston (born 1979), author and journalist Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925), writer Richard Realf (1832–1878), poet Thomas Sackville...

necessary for achieving reform. These "Ladies of Langham Place" included Bessie Rayner Parkes and Anna Jameson. They focused on education, employment, and marital...

conditions for women, and was friends with feminists Bessie Rayner Parkes (later Bessie Rayner Belloc) and Barbara Leigh Smith, later Barbara Bodichon...

journal The Westminster Review from 1851 until 1852. Feminist writer Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc began her career writing for local newspapers and was founder...

Circle of the 1850s, led by Barbara Bodichon (née Leigh-Smith) and Bessie Rayner Parkes. They also campaigned for improved female rights in the law, employment...

Joseph Parkes (22 January 1796 – 11 August 1865) was an English political reformer. Born into Unitarian Whig circles, Parkes developed an association...

Journal in 1858. It was in 1858 founded by Barbara Bodichon and Bessie Rayner Parkes, with others, Bodichon being the major shareholder. The Society for...

correspondence). Janus (Cambridge University Archives). Personal Papers of Bessie Rayner Parkes: Cambridge University. John Chapple (1997). Elizabeth Gaskell: The...

1828–1897) and a son (Louis, 1830-1872). Her son would later marry Bessie Rayner Parkes, a prominent English feminist and personal friend of Swanton's, and...

established in 1858 by Barbara Bodichon, Matilda Mary Hays and Bessie Rayner Parkes to cover employment and equality issues. This made her a major supporter...

(1858-1864) whose inaugural edition was published by Matilda Mary Hays and Bessie Rayner Parkes and which promoted the employment of women. In 1863 Faithfull began...

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) – founder leader of suffragette movement Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925) – editor of first journal to press for women's rights...

translator Una-Mary Parker (1930–2019), novelist and journalist Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925), writer and poet C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993),...

been considered a feminist analysis of prostitution. Bessie Rayner Parkes, daughter of Joseph Parkes the Radical Member of Parliament, tried in 1853 to...

John Everett Millais, Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1896) 16 June – Bessie Rayner Parkes, journalist and feminist (died 1925) 14 July – Edward White Benson...

Circle of the 1850s, led by Barbara Bodichon (née Leigh-Smith) and Bessie Rayner Parkes. They also campaigned for improved female rights in the law, employment...

and was buried in the churchyard. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon Bessie Rayner Parkes The Langham Place Group Society for Promoting the Employment of Women...

Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (born 1859) 23 March – Bessie Rayner Parkes, journalist and feminist (born 1829) 28 March – Henry Rawlinson,...

distinguished line of authors and feminists. One great-grandmother was Bessie Rayner Parkes, a prominent British feminist and champion of women's suffrage. Another...

Woman's Journal is established by Barbara Bodichon, Matilda Hays, Bessie Rayner Parkes (the editor) and others to discuss women's equality issues. 10 April...

composed of like-minded women such as Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Jessie Boucherett, Emily Davies, and Helen Blackburn. The Langham...

long line of Birmingham radicals – his mother was Bessie Rayner Parkes, his grandfather Joseph Parkes and his great-great-grandfather Joseph Priestley...

who was credited with the discovery of oxygen. Her grandmother was Bessie Rayner Parkes, a prominent British feminist and champion of women's suffrage. Her...

friend and comrade was another major feminist figure, Elizabeth "Bessie" Rayner Parkes, whom Craig had met through her work with The Waverley Journal,...