Elizabeth Bethune Campbell

Campbell as a Debutante. Courtesy UBC Press

Elizabeth Bethune Campbell was a Jamaica Plain resident and author of the book, controversial in its time, Where Angels Fear to Tread. Her book was self-published in 1940 from her home in the rectory of St. John’s Episcopalian Church on Alveston Street in Jamaica Plain. We are greatful to UBC Press for permission to reprint the following excerpt about Campbell from the book, The Heiress vs the Establishment.