A photograph of a female figure looking towards the camera. Her hair is pulled back off her forehead. She is wearing a plain blouse in the late Victorian style which is buttoned up to the collar and clasped together with a brooch. Beneath the photograph are the following words - Miss Marie Bethell Beauclerc (From a photograph by A. Marlow, Handsworth).
#BirminghamWomen Marie Bethell Beauclerc (1845–1897), innovator in journalism and education, credited as England's first female reporter and contemporary of George Dawson: tinyurl.com/MarieBeauclerc Ref: Birmingham Faces & Places vol.5 opp. p.74. L08.2 #LibraryofBham