Blanche Henrietta Johnes Shelley | |
|---|---|
 portrait by Eden Upton Eddis | |
| Born | 15 December 1835
 Upper Brook Street |
| Died | 12 April 1898
(aged 62) |
| Occupation |
Photographer,
writer
|
| Spouse(s) | Hervey Charles Pechell
|
| Parent(s) |
|
Blanche Henrietta Johnes Shelley Pechell (15 December 1835 – 12 April 1898) was a British photographer and writer.
Blanche Henrietta Johnes Shelley was the daughter of Sir John Villiers Shelley, 7th Baronet and Louisa Elizabeth Anne Knight. [1] She was a distant relative of photographic pioneer Henry Fox Talbot and her family became involved in early experiments with photography. Her only surviving photograph, Ferns and Daffodil, dates from 1854. [2]
She married genealogist Hervey Charles Pechell in 1874. [1]
In 1876, she published a children's story called Fernseed; or, The Woodland Fairy. [2]
She inherited Maresfield Park from her father, and Hervey Pechell, who died a year after her, bequeathed it to Count Alexander Münster. [3]
References
- ^
a
b
Burke's peerage, baronetage and knightage. Charles Mosley (107th ed.). Stokesley: Burke's Peerage & Gentry. 2003. p. 3595.
ISBN
0-9711966-2-1.
OCLC
52621466.
{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link) - ^ a b Taylor, Roger; Schaaf, Larry John (2007). Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 369. ISBN 978-1-58839-225-1.
-
^ of), Reginald Brabazon Meath (12th earl (1923).
Memories of the Nineteenth Century. E.P. Dutton.
{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link)
Blanche Henrietta Johnes Shelley | |
|---|---|
|
portrait by Eden Upton Eddis | |
| Born | 15 December 1835
Upper Brook Street |
| Died | 12 April 1898
(aged 62) |
| Occupation |
Photographer,
writer
|
| Spouse(s) | Hervey Charles Pechell
|
| Parent(s) |
|
Blanche Henrietta Johnes Shelley Pechell (15 December 1835 – 12 April 1898) was a British photographer and writer.
Blanche Henrietta Johnes Shelley was the daughter of Sir John Villiers Shelley, 7th Baronet and Louisa Elizabeth Anne Knight. [1] She was a distant relative of photographic pioneer Henry Fox Talbot and her family became involved in early experiments with photography. Her only surviving photograph, Ferns and Daffodil, dates from 1854. [2]
She married genealogist Hervey Charles Pechell in 1874. [1]
In 1876, she published a children's story called Fernseed; or, The Woodland Fairy. [2]
She inherited Maresfield Park from her father, and Hervey Pechell, who died a year after her, bequeathed it to Count Alexander Münster. [3]
References
- ^
a
b
Burke's peerage, baronetage and knightage. Charles Mosley (107th ed.). Stokesley: Burke's Peerage & Gentry. 2003. p. 3595.
ISBN
0-9711966-2-1.
OCLC
52621466.
{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link) - ^ a b Taylor, Roger; Schaaf, Larry John (2007). Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 369. ISBN 978-1-58839-225-1.
-
^ of), Reginald Brabazon Meath (12th earl (1923).
Memories of the Nineteenth Century. E.P. Dutton.
{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link)