b. 16 June 1829. d. 29 March 1925. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Prominent feminist campaigner, journalist, and poet. Pseudonym: “B. R. P.” Briefly
edited the *Waverley Journal* and then established and edited *The English Woman’s
Journal* (although Emily Davies took over the editorship for six months in 1862).
Part of the Langham Place Group. A prominent campaigner in support of the Married
Women’s Property Bill and reform of the Divorce Act (1855). Author of *Poems* (1852),
*Summer Sketches and Other Poems* (1854), and *Fifty Years* (1904). Her feminist prose
includes *Essays on Woman’s Work* (1865). Converted to Catholicism in 1864. Married
Louis Belloc on 19 September 1867 and lived in France with him until his death in
1871, after which she lived periodically in France and in England until financial
difficulties in 1877 forced her to retire to a cottage in Sussex. Her children, also
writers, were Marie Belloc Lowndes and Hilaire Belloc. Biographical information: *ODNB*,
*Orlando*. (AC)