GCPP Parkes 5/108
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Letter from Bessie Parkes to Barbara Bodichon, addressed from 17 Wimpole Street, 1861-12-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Parkes 5/108
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Bessie is well and no longer experiencing the periods of exhaustion she used to suffer. She discusses friction in the office of the English Woman’s Journal and the impending departure of Max [Hays]. She discusses various proposed articles for the EWJ, including one from Miss [Frances Power] Cobbe. She discusses Roman Catholicism again. She comments on Herbert Spencer [1820-1903, sociologist, philosopher etc, who coined the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’ - - -] and on the books of Marian...
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1861-12-08