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Blanche Henrietta Johnes Shelley

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Blanche Henrietta Johnes Shelley
portrait by Eden Upton Eddis
Born15 December 1835 Edit this on Wikidata
Upper Brook Street Edit this on Wikidata
Died12 April 1898 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 62)
OccupationPhotographer, writer Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)Hervey Charles Pechell Edit this on Wikidata
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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, on her death leaving it to her husband Hervey Pechell, who died in December the same year, and subsequently bequeathed it to their friend Count Alexander Münster.[3]

References

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  1. ^ 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)
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ of), Reginald Brabazon Meath (12th earl (1923). Memories of the Nineteenth Century. E.P. Dutton.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)