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About Ethel Jenner Rosenberg
- Ethel Jenner Rosenberg (August 6, 1858 - November 17, 1930) became the first English Bahá'Ă. Rosenberg became a Bahá'Ă when she converted in 1899, after having been introduced to the Bahá'Ă Faith by Mary Thornburgh-Cropper, an American resident in London who had converted in 1898.
- Rosenberg was born in the city of Bath, Somerset to a Jewish family and was a painter trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.
- She was ?Abdu'l-Bahá's social secretary during his visits to London.
- ?Abdu'l-Bahá asked her, among others, to give consideration to publishing Bahá'à books, which resulted in the publication of ?Abdu'l-Bahá in London and A Brief Account of the Bahai Movement.
- Rosenberg also assisted Laura Clifford Barney in compiling Some Answered Questions and Lady Blomfield in compiling Paris Talks. Rosenberg traveled to America three times, initially doing so with MĂrzá Abu'l-Fa?l and Laura Clifford Barney.
- She would spend many months in the United States and stayed with Phoebe Hearst. Rosenberg made three pilgrimages to Haifa, in 1904, 1909 and 1921.
- When she arrived in Haifa for her third pilgrimage, in 1921, she found that ?Abdu'l-Bahá had recently died.
- Remaining in Haifa, she greeted Lady Blomfield, Shoghi Effendi, and Shoghi Effendi's sister Ruhangiz when the three arrived from England on December 29, 1921.
- Shoghi Effendi gave her instructions for the calling of the first National Spiritual Assembly of England, which she would serve on.
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