[PW] Ethel Reed Redux

[Donna Halper]

So before I submit my update to the Grove Encyclopaedia of Art, has 
anything new come out about the late great poster artist Ethel 
Reed?  When last we spoke about her, I had uncovered lots of 
information about her life in the USA prior to her trip to England, 
and the last mention I found was on the British census of 1901, which 
said that she and her son (no father of the baby is listed-- the son 
is listed as Antony Reed) were living in London.

We established that she was not the Ethel Reed who died in 1910.  We 
established that she seems to have remained in the UK, and we 
established a few other things, but this story still has no end-- as 
in, I need a reliable date of death.  Have any other British 
documents come out since the 1901 census?   Ethel May Reed was born 
in Newburyport MA on 13 March 1874.   Her parents were Edgar Eugene 
Reed and Mary Elizabeth (Mahoney) Reed.   They seem to have split up 
circa 1890, and Edgar died very young, several years later.  I 
checked the cemetary records in Newburyport and Franklin (the two 
towns where Edgar worked as a photographer) and neither his wife nor 
his daughter are buried there.  (He was buried in Newburyport 
MA.)  Mary Elizabeth seems to have returned to Ireland (she was from 
County Cork) but the trail goes cold for both her and Ethel after 1901.


Donna L. Halper, Journalism Dept. Emerson College Boston MA