Ellice Hopkins : a memoir / by Rosa M. Barrett ; with introduction by H. Scott Holland.

  • Barrett, Rosa Mary.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Ellice Hopkins : a memoir / by Rosa M. Barrett ; with introduction by H. Scott Holland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    humour. No doubt her courage, her sincerity, her magnetic personality, as well as her beauti- ful voice and her eloquence, all helped to hold her audience spellbound, for she certainly be- came a most persuasive and effective speaker. Ellice, from childhood, was very delicate, and public life and work for women was almost unheard of in those days; but she tells graphically, as she alone could, how, in spite of these difficulties, her work among working men began, how they gathered round her in Barnwell, a Cambridge suburb, where some hundreds of navvies were at that time employed, until seven hundred or more men who never thought of going to church came to listen to her. In time, mainly by her efforts, a Mission Hall was built for these meetings, and as a Working Men’s Institute and Club. All this preparatory work was of the greatest value to her in her later life. In the letter, how- ever, given on page 31 her o\vn later thoughts on it will be found. That her speaking, even at this early date, had much of the power of her later years, is shown in an account given