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 Sir John Villiers Shelley, 7th Baronet (18 March 1808 – 28 January 1867) was an English Tory landowner and politician. Early life He was born the eldest son of Sir John Shelley, 6th Baronet and the former Frances Winkley (1787–1873), a note ...

and Louisa Elizabeth Anne Knight. She was a distant relative of photographic pioneer

Henry Fox Talbot William Henry Fox Talbot FRS FRSE FRAS (; 11 February 180017 September 1877) was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later ...

and her family became involved in early experiments with photography. Her only surviving photograph, ''Ferns and Daffodil'', dates from 1854. 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 Count, later Prince, Alexander Otto Hugo Wladimir zu Münster (1 September 1858 – 12 October 1922) was a German aristocrat who was the owner of Maresfield Park estate, Maresfield, East Sussex. Early life and family Alexander Münster was born i ...

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