After leaving school Ethel Mannin found employment as a typist for the advertising agency, Charles F. Higham Ltd. Soon afterwards, Charles Frederick Higham promoted her to the post of copywriter. She also edited two in-house publications. This included The Pelican, a theatrical newspaper Higham acquired in 1917.
On 28th November, 1919, Mannin married fellow writer John Alexander Porteus (1885–1956), who was the general manager at Highams. Soon after her marriage she gave birth to her only child, Jean. She now turned to novel writing and published Martha in 1923. According to one critic, the novel "elaborately plots the life of the lovechild of an unmarried woman and the price the child has to pay for the sins of the parents." This was followed by the Hunger for the Sea (1924), Sounding Brass (1925) and Pilgrims (1927). The author of The Feminist Companion to Literature in English has argued that "these are socially and politically conscious works, alert to women's oppression".
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