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[edit]Brocklehurst was one of the eight children of John Brocklehurst, a wealthy Macclesfield silk manufacturer, and his wife Mary.[1][2] The family started out in the button making business, but they moved into silk in the 19th century.[2]
In 1861 she accepted a marriage proposal from one Henry Coventry, a distant relation of the Earls of Coventry, but her father declined consent; Brocklehurst broke off the engagement.[3] She never married, but from the 1870s shared her life with her companion Mary Booth. Brocklehurst and Booth shared a home, 'Bagstones', at Wincle outside Macclesfield.
Brocklehurst died in London in 1898. It is thought she committed suicide.[4] Booth inherited the property and lived there until her own death in 1912. They are buried in the same grave, with a joint gravestone, in the churchyard at Wincle.[4]
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Marianne Brocklehurst was a daughter of John Brocklehurst, a Macclesfield silk manufacturer and one of it’s first Members of Parliament, and his wife Mary.[5] The family was first in the button making business, but by the late 18th and early 19th centuries they were in the silk trade and textile manufacturing business, and they were wealthy. Marianne was born in 1832 and had traveled widely with her sister Emma from when she was around 20 years old. She had an early interest in archaeology and photography. Marianne was engaged to a man when she was younger, but her father made her end the relationship because her fiance didn’t have enough money. Apparently his family was not the kind John wanted to let Marianne marry into. She had other suitors, but turned them all away simply, said her sister Emma, because she was “not for marrying.”[6] From then on, Marianne enjoyed quite a lot of freedom as an unmarried spinster, so it’s hard to say she was disappointed at the end of the engagement. She became a photographer in the late 1860s and brought in Mary Booth as a business partner.
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[edit]- ^ a b Whistow, Thelma (2004). Marianne Brocklehurst : benefactor, explorer, artist : her life and times 1832-1898. Macclesfield Museums Trust. Macclesfield: Macclesfield Museums Trust. ISBN 978-1870926447. OCLC 56774718.
- ^ a b Bray, Jean (2000). The Lady of Sudeley. Long Barn Books. p. 9.
- ^ Bray, Jean (2004). The Lady of Sudeley. Sutton Publishing Ltd. p. 70. ISBN 0750937203.
- ^ a b Serpico, Margaret (2015). Beyond Beauty (PDF). Two Temple Place.
- ^ Bray, Jean (2000). The Lady of Sudeley. Ebrington, UK: Long Barn Books. p. 9.
- ^ Bray, Jean (2004). The Lady of Sudeley. Ebrington, UK: Long Barn Books. p. 32.
- ^ Miss Brocklehurst on the Nile: Diary of a Victorian Traveller in Egypt. Cheshire, UK: Millrace. 2004. ISBN 1902173147.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Bray, Jean (2000). The Lady of Sudeley. Ebrington, UK: Long Barn Books. p. 123.
- ^ Bray, Jean (2004). The Lady of Sudeley. Ebrington, UK: Long Barn Books. p. 7829.
- ^ Miss Brocklehurst on the Nile: Diary of a Victorian Traveller in Egypt. Cheshire, UK: Millrace. 2004. ISBN 1902173147.
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