Photocopy of an incomplete letter from Bessie Rayner Parkes to Mary [-]
Single Item
MS. Shelley adds. c. 13, fols. 1-5
Photocopy of an incomplete letter from Bessie Rayner Parkes to Mary [-], 15 Nov 1857. The letter describes her first visit to Sir Percy Florence Shelley (the son of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) and his wife Jane, Lady Shelley at Boscombe Manor, near Bournemouth.
Dates
- 15 Nov 1857
Extent
5 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Shelley adds. c. 13, fol. 1].
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Shelfmark:
MS. Shelley adds. c. 13, fols. 1-5
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 11934
Abstract
Photocopy of an incomplete letter from Bessie Rayner Parkes to Mary [-], 15 Nov 1857
Biographical / Historical
Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc (1829-1925) was an English feminist and campaigners for women’s rights in Victorian times and also a poet, essayist and journalist.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Taken by Margaret Crum in 1975 from the original at Cologny-Geneva, Fondation Martin Bodmer, S.N., see M. C. Crum, English and American autographs in the Bodmeriana, Cologny-Genève 1977, p. 62.
- Title
- Photocopy of an incomplete letter from Bessie Rayner Parkes to Mary [-]
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Original catalogue by Bruce Barker-Benfield. EAD version by Harriet Costelloe.
- Date
- 2016
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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