Tag: GRO0245

head of the family was the Rector, the Rev. Richard Parker, one of whose sons has just been appointed Attorney Generals’ “devil”- a position which usually leads to a judgeship. A daughter is the authoress, Mrs. Ellen F. Pinsent. She was born in 1866, and twenty-two married Mr. H. F. Pinsent, of Birmingham … (discussion of books) … Mr. R. J. Parker, of the Chancery Bar, is forty-two years of age, and is one of the youngest men ever to be chosen to fill the position mentioned. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn nearly seventeen years ago and has “devilled” for the busy Chancery lawyer whom he succeeds in one of the most coveted legal positions.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920

Concerning Fiction: … Mr. Arnold announces a new novel by Mrs. Pinsent. Has the title “Job Hildred.” 

[see related: London Daily Chronicle: 29^th October 1897]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Wedding at Radford: Mr. H. R. Winterton – Miss M. Hill, In St. Nicholas Church, Radford, on Thursday Miss Mabel Hill, second daughter of Colonel C. J. and Mrs. Hill, of Elmfield, Coventry, was married to Mr. Herbert Ralph Winterton, son of Mr. Thomas Winterton of Walton Warren near burton … (description of marriage) … (gifts included) … Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Pinsent, old oak, Mr. and Mrs. Hume Pinsent, oak trays …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920
GRO0569 Devonport: Laura Proctor Ryland: 1855 – 1931
GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

J. R. Lovegrove: Bookseller and Stationer: … Newest books just received from Mudie’s: …  “No Place for Repentance: … E. F. Pinsent:

[see also Clevedon Mercury on other dates]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

A New Miss Yonge: “Children of This World.” By Ellen F. Pinsent (London, Methuen and Co. 6s):  It is said that even a good judge of wine cannot, when blindfolded, distinguish between port and sherry. Never having made a test experiment, we are unable to say whether the saying represents a fact or vulgar error; but we think it certain that a reader ignorant of the name upon the title page of “Children of This World” might easily mistake any chapter of it for the work of Miss Charlotte Younge. We do not intend this remark to be regarded either as a compliment or a disparagement, but as simple characterisation. … (discussion of both writers) …

[see related on several following dates]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Modern Life and thought: In these days when the publication of merely amusing novels is so rapid, we are glad to welcome a work of fiction which is not a book to be read and forgotten on a railway journey. In “Children of the World (6s: Methuen and Co., London) we have no commonplace novel; rather have we a work which abounds with clever writing. … (description of plot) … We are afraid Mrs. Pinsent has made a mistake in making her opening chapters too lengthy. … with this slight exception the book is above criticism. As a story of modern life and thought, and a study of two opposite types – the Christian and the Agnostic – Mrs. Pinsent’s work is very instructive and provides much food for the reflective mind to digest.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Fiction:  – A story by Mrs. Ellen Pinsent, entitled “Children of this World,” will be published by Messrs. Methuen before the end of the month. It is a study of two opposite types, the Christian and the Agnostic …

[see related: London Daily Chronicle: 25^th March & 26^th April 1895]

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

The Recent Fashionable Marriages: Last week we published a report of the marriage of our Vicar with Miss Walls, in accordance with our promise we now append the particulars of the presents: … (list includes) … Mrs. Hume Pinsent, copper flower stand …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Swan Sonnenschein & Co.: Jenny’s Case by Ellen F. Pinsent (2 vols): “An honest and satisfactory of work. From the first to the last the plot develops as a revelation of destiny. Pitiful to read, interesting for its sincerity and simplicity of design, not savage, but hard in its observation, human to the last degree “Jenny’s Case” is a scholarly novel: “National Observer: … … “Jenny is a being worthy of the creative genius of Mrs. Gaskell or Miss Thackeray:” “Daily Telegraph.” … … “A story of uncommon merit. Mrs. Pinsent is not afraid of hard realities, but her realism is not ugly, and the sadder details of her tale are intruded with a sympathetic reticence which makes simple annals infinitely pathetic. It is a very remarkably story in every way.” St. James’s Gazette.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Birth: Pinsent: On the 24^th May, at 18 Greenfields Crescent, Edgbaston, Birmingham, the wife of Hume C. Pinsent, of a son.

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GRO0163 Devonport: David Hume Pinsent: 1891 – 1918
GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920