Ladies of Birmingham; This subject furnishes Miss Sarah Tooley for a second paper in the “Women at Home”. She speaks this month of Mrs. Herbert Chamberlain, an active politician and for four years president of the Birmingham Women’s Liberal Unionist Association; of Mrs. Osler, who is an able speaker amongst the women on the Liberal side; Mrs. Harry Edmunds, founder of the Birmingham and Midland Counties Needlework Guild; Mrs. Ellen Pinsent, author of “Jenny’s Case,” Miss Dale of the Birmingham School Board, and Miss Kenward, the secretary and founder of the “Girls’ Letter Guild,” and also now a member of the school board. … … Apropos of her best-known novel, Mrs. Pinsent relates that she “had a very amusing letter sent by a person representing a branch of the “Girls’ Friendly Society” saying that if the story was a true one it would be an admirable book for associates to read, but if it was a mere idle piece of fiction, it should not be recommended.”
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949