Elsie Kitching Series

Editor's Note: The January 1936 issue of The Parents' Review opened with this announcement: It is fifty years since Miss Mason published Home Education, which formed the basis of her work as founder of the P.N.E.U. In commemoration of this, all P.N.E.U.

Editor's Note: Our fifth article in the Elsie Kitching Series brings us to 1936. That year was the fiftieth anniversary of the Charlotte Mason method, born by the publication of Home Education in 1886. Elsie Kitching had been serving as the Director of the Parents' Union School and the editor of The Parents' Review since Mason's death in 1923.

Editor's Note: On January 5, 1927, a PNEU Meeting was held in London in conjunction with the Conference of Educational Associations. The subject under discussion was "Modern Educational Agencies and the Parents' Union School." Henrietta Franklin chaired the meeting and opened by explaining how the late Charlotte Mason had evaluated new developments in education during her lifetime.

Editor's Note, by Jennifer Talsma On April 14, 1925, Miss Elsie Kitching delivered the opening address to "The Parent's Union School Gathering at Canterbury," an event that fulfilled a wish Charlotte Mason had expressed in 1910, when, during a trip to that old city, she told Miss Kitching "What a wonderful place this would be for a Gathering for our dear P.U.S.

Editor's Note: The closing pages of the very first Parents' Review in 1890 contained a short section entitled "Notes and Queries." Charlotte Mason introduced it as follows: We have received some valuable "Notes," but do not publish all in this number, partly, that we may first take an opportunity to make clear to our readers the design of our "Notes and Queries" pages.

Editor's Note: The December 30, 1955 issue of The Times included an obituary with the title "Disciple of Charlotte Mason." The article surveyed the life of a woman who had died two days before: She took the intermediate examination in Arts at London University in 1893, but instead of proceeding to a degree she joined Miss Mason in the then young Parents' National Educational Union.