The Queen: Saturday 31st October 1896

Mrs. Hume Pinsent: Author of “No Place for Repentance.” A Book called “Jenny’s Case” brought the name of Mrs. Pinsent some few years ago into the list of novelists. It was a story of disaster to man and maid, disaster that we realized from the opening of the tale to be predestined. The story held us by its intensity, for there was scarcely an idle page in it. What remained after the excitement of the tragedy had passed from the mind was a vivid sense of what life means to the English rustic, especially in such an un-exhilarating part of the country as Lincolnshire. … (continues) …

[***Excellent photograph of Mrs. Pinsent]


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Referenced

GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949