Blanche Henrietta Johnes Shelley Explained

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Blanche Henrietta Johnes Shelley Pechell (15 December 1835 –) 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.

In 1876, she published a children's story called Fernseed; or, The Woodland Fairy.

She inherited Maresfield Park from her father, and Hervey Pechell, who died a year after her, bequeathed it to Count Alexander Münster.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: Burke's peerage, baronetage and knightage . 2003 . Burke's Peerage & Gentry . Charles Mosley . 0-9711966-2-1 . 107th . Stokesley . 3595 . 52621466.
2. Book: Taylor . Roger . Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860 . Schaaf . Larry John . 2007 . Metropolitan Museum of Art . 978-1-58839-225-1 . 369 . en.
3. Book: of), Reginald Brabazon Meath (12th earl . Memories of the Nineteenth Century . 1923 . E.P. Dutton . en.