La Belle France.
by Parkes-Belloc, Bessie Rayner
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
London: Strahan and Co., 1868 First edition, presentation copy. A book of poetry and prose based on the author's travels in France. . Publisher's blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. . Top edge gilt. Neatly recased preserving original brown endpapers. . Octavo. With a frontispiece and eight plates. Spine darkened. Some soiling to endpapers. Bookplate (ca. 1903) to front pastedown. Author's presentation inscription to front flyleaf, as well as a separate gift inscription (of Caroline Fletcher Smith, gifting this book to the South Place Ethical Society in 1902). Some dampstaining to edges of leaves. Faint marginal toning. A good copy of a book that is scarce in commerce, presented by the author "To Sarah Lewin, from her affectionate friend," dated 1868. Bessie Parkes-Belloc (1829 – 1925) was a writer, journalist, and women's rights activist who advocated for women's employment opportunities. Emily Faithfull, Victoria Press founder and Queen Victoria's official printer, credited Parkes-Belloc as the inspiration for the Victoria Press: Parkes-Belloc had purchased and taught herself how to use a printing press, which Faithfull also used to learn how to print. The experience convinced Faithfull that printing and publishing were viable careers for women. Parkes-Belloc was also a friend of George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Adelaide Procter, Jessie Boucherett, Maria Rye, and Isa Craig. She was the mother of the writer and historian Hilaire Belloc (1870 – 1953). Along with women's employment rights, Parkes-Belloc was also enthusiastic about education and property rights for married women. She wrote Remarks on the Education of Girls in 1854 and her Essays on Women's Work in 1864. In 1855, Parkes-Belloc and Barbara Leigh Smith campaigned for the passage of a Married Women's Property Bill. Their action was unsuccessful, but the effort finally culminated in the passage of the Married Women's Property Act in 1874. Parkes-Belloc was also one of the founders of the English Woman's Journal.
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- Bookseller
- Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17295
- Title
- La Belle France.
- Author
- Parkes-Belloc, Bessie Rayner
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. . Top edge gilt. Neatly recased preserving original brown endpapers.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, presentation copy. A book of poetry and prose bas
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Strahan and Co.,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1868
- Pages
- xxvi, [errata slip], 320 pp.
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
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Los Angeles, California
About Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
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