poet, essayist and journalist. Bessie Rayner Parkes was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, daughter of Joseph Parkes (1796–1865), a prosperous solicitor...
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and educator Bessie Boehm Moore (1902–1995), American educator Diamond Bessie (1854–1877), American murder victim Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925), English...
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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...
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English literature into French. Their son, Louis, would later marry Bessie Rayner Parkes, a prominent English feminist who remained a close personal friend...
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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...
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Mary Hays and Bessie Rayner Parkes established the first feminist British periodical, the English Woman's Journal, with Bessie Parkes the chief editor...
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conditions for women, and was friends with feminists Bessie Rayner Parkes (later Bessie Rayner Belloc) and Barbara Leigh Smith, later Barbara Bodichon...
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poet and author Alex Preston (born 1979), author and journalist Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925), writer Richard Realf (1832–1878), poet Thomas Sackville...
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necessary for achieving reform. These "Ladies of Langham Place" included Bessie Rayner Parkes and Anna Jameson. They focused on education, employment, and marital...
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journal The Westminster Review from 1851 until 1852. Feminist writer Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc began her career writing for local newspapers and was founder...
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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...
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Joseph Parkes (22 January 1796 – 11 August 1865) was an English political reformer. Born into Unitarian Whig circles, Parkes developed an association...
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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...
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correspondence). Janus (Cambridge University Archives). Personal Papers of Bessie Rayner Parkes: Cambridge University. John Chapple (1997). Elizabeth Gaskell: The...
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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...
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translator Una-Mary Parker (1930–2019), novelist and journalist Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925), writer and poet C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993),...
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(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...
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Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) – founder leader of suffragette movement Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925) – editor of first journal to press for women's rights...
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composed of like-minded women such as Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Jessie Boucherett, Emily Davies, and Helen Blackburn. The Langham...
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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...
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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...
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John Everett Millais, Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1896) 16 June – Bessie Rayner Parkes, journalist and feminist (died 1925) 14 July – Edward White Benson...
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been considered a feminist analysis of prostitution. Bessie Rayner Parkes, daughter of Joseph Parkes the Radical Member of Parliament, tried in 1853 to...
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Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (born 1859) 23 March – Bessie Rayner Parkes, journalist and feminist (born 1829) 28 March – Henry Rawlinson,...
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distinguished line of authors and feminists. One great-grandmother was Bessie Rayner Parkes, a prominent British feminist and champion of women's suffrage. Another...
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and was buried in the churchyard. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon Bessie Rayner Parkes The Langham Place Group Society for Promoting the Employment of Women...
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long line of Birmingham radicals – his mother was Bessie Rayner Parkes, his grandfather Joseph Parkes and his great-great-grandfather Joseph Priestley...
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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...
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Frederick Lowndes and the writer Marie Belloc Lowndes, granddaughter of Bessie Rayner Parkes, a prominent campaigner for women's rights, and niece of the author...
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friend and comrade was another major feminist figure, Elizabeth "Bessie" Rayner Parkes, whom Craig had met through her work with The Waverley Journal,...
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