Blanche Henrietta Johnes Shelley Pechell (15 December 1835 – 12 April 1898) was a British photographer and writer.
Blanche Henrietta Johnes Shelley | |
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 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 |
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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 edit
- ^ 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.
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