Edith J. (Edith Jane) Broomhall

Edith J. Broomhall, identified in library records as Edith Jane Broomhall, is known for the 1921 textbook Spanish Composition. In its preface, she described herself as being at Central High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and thanked fellow educators who had read the work in manuscript or proof.

Contemporary school records show that she taught Spanish at Central High School and had come there from Spokane, Washington about three years before her death. A 1921 memorial notice in the school yearbook remembered her as faculty adviser to the Spanish Club, a contributor to the school paper, and an active supporter of student life.

Details about her life are limited, but burial records indicate that Edith Jane Broomhall died in Hennepin County, Minnesota, on March 2, 1921. What remains clearest is her commitment to teaching: her surviving book is practical, classroom-minded, and shaped by daily work with students learning Spanish.