Ethel Duncan (1856–1878)
Ethel Romanes (1879–1882)
1856–1927
Writer and lecturer on religion. Married George John Romanes in 1879. Sat on the council of the Froebel Society (an organisation that promoted early childhood education and training for kindergarten teachers). Wrote a biography of her husband after his early death in 1894. Published devotional works and sat on the councils of the Pan-Anglican Congress in 1908. Member of the Christian Social Union. Converted to Catholicism in 1919. Published historical works and novels in the last part of her life.
Source
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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