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She regularly held membership in a London club, belonging in the 1920s to the Lyceum Club and the Writers' Club , and later to the Ladies' Carlton Club .

Ada Cross (who was by now, under her birth name of Ada Cambridge , a well-regarded author) became the first president of the Women Writers' Club in Williamstown, Australia.

She was buried in Brighton Cemetery in Melbourne, survived by her daughter and son. An obituary in the newspaper Argus commended her involvement in the Women Writers' Club , citing her invaluable advice [to]...

EHD served as Vice-President of the Femina Vie Heureuse and Northcliffe Prizes for Literature. She served with Alice Meynell on the Executive Committee of the Lyceum Club .

Apart from her suffrage affiliations, BH also served on the committees of various women's organizations: the Writers' Club (whose first president was John Strange Winter ), the London International Lyceum Club (which Constance Smedley founded...

DS helped found the London International Lyceum Club , which was established by Constance Smedley as a club for professional women on an equal footing with the long-standing London clubs for professional men.

They contacted sixty well-known women journalists and authors; only two replied. Feeling dubious about women's business abilities, they took advice from Smedley's father (who over the years supported the club to the extent...

Since the Langham Place Group had provided a social space for women in 1860, several organizations had already challenged the flourishing institution of men's clubs. The Lyceum Club came on the scene at a time...

From the beginning CS saw her enterprise as cosmopolitan, designed for promoting understanding between different nations and cultures. She travelled widely in order to set up clubhouses in other European countries: in the Netherlands (Amsterdam...

The Lyceum involved CS in various related activities. It was the reason for which she learned the art of public speaking, which frightened her at first. One of her crusades was a campaign to support...

They had known each other as students at Birmingham Art School, and met again in 1907 when he designed the decor for a special dinner which CS gave at the Lyceum Club .

On marrying, CS withdrew from her work with the Lyceum Clubs to spend her time writing and illustrating in collaboration with her husband, and then developing symbolist performance techniques. This began with their...

In the New Forest they set up a theatrical summer school, which ran for three seasons. They attracted students from all over the world. At the same period they began publishing textbooks on their theatrical...

In October 1905 the Lyceum Club journal carried an article by CS entitled The Stony Path.

Life, she wrote here, is a perpetual crusade. She had had an irresistible desire to crystallize every phase in the form of some sort of story for grown-ups or children, but the experiences had...