The Honour of a Guide

by E.M. Channon, G.W. Goss (Illustrator)

With the disappearance of her father in a terrific storm off her home in the West of Ireland, Ethne O'Hea was suddenly introduced to another and very different kind of life with an aunt whose ideas were thoroughly old-fashioned and straitlaced. It was then that the awakening of her interest in Guides came to her rescue, and turned what would have been a very lonely life into one full of adventure and pleasure.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1926

About the author

Born in 1875, in Rathdowney, Ireland, Ethel Mary Bredin was the daughter of the Rev. Edwin Bredin. Upon the death of her father, when she was four years old, Bredin and mother went to live with relations in England. She was educated at St. Leonard's Ladies' College, and for one year, at Cheltenham Ladies' College. In 1904, she married the Rev. Francis Granville Channon, and settled with him at Eton, where he spent most of his working life. They had six children. Channon began to write and published after she was married, for the pleasure of it, and to supplement the family income. She retired, with Rev. Channon, to Bucknell, Shropshire, in 1932, and died there, in 1941.