Nevertheless, she persisted Ethel’s Story: Liverpool Ethel Learns Unexpected Life Lessons 1. If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone—Margaret Atwood Blackpool: January 9th, 1897 On a crisp January day in 1897, Ethel Finch Taylor caught the tail of the Victorian Era, taking her first breath in the resort town o