Best known work

• Letters to the Crewe Chronicle signed "A Factory Girl", 1894

Genres

• Fiction - Short Stories

Nom de plume

None

Social class

Working class

Parental background

Born on a farm, she left school to help raise the family. Chew worked in a factory in her twenties.

At publication of best known work

• Age: 24
• Marital status: Unmarried
• Number of children: 0

Physical description

Ada Nield Chew was very diffident about her personal appearance, but contemporaries record that she was very good-looking, with striking red hair. (David Doughan, ODNB)

Did you know?

In 1896 Chew began a UK tour, speaking on behalf of the Independent Labour Party, primarily on women's rights, in a coverted soup van known as the Clarion Van.

Additional information

Kirsty Bunting gives a very readable introduction to Chew. A full biography of Chew is given on the Spartacus Educational site.