Ethel Leontine Gabain was born in Le Harve, France but educated in England. She trained at the Slade and at the Central School in London and was already exhibiting at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool in 1906. She studied lithography under F.E.Jackson and was a founder member of the Senefelder Club when it opened in 1909 and became secretary to the Club in 1910-1916. She married the artist and lithographer John Copley in 1913 who printed her lithographs which were almost exclusively in monochrome and printed in small editions. Ref: The Fine Art Society exhibition catalogue: Ethel Gabain, Lithographs London 2003 with a full list of 321 prints.