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Occupation | Anna Wickham | She did, however, occasionally perform after her marriage, singing at venues such as the Lyceum Club
. Wickham, Anna et al. “Fragment of an Autobiography: Prelude to a Spring Clean”. The Writings of Anna Wickham Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, pp. 51-157. 151 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
met Hugh Walpole after receiving a fan letter he sent her in 1907. They met for tea at the Lyceum Club
, a London women's social club that had been inaugurated by Constance Smedley |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | They contacted sixty well-known women journalists and authors; only two replied. Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus. 59 |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | 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... |
Travel | Constance Smedley | 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... |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Smedley | They had known each other as students at Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus. 179-83 |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Smedley |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | 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... |
Publishing | Constance Smedley | In October 1905 the Lyceum Club
journal carried an article by CS
entitled The Stony Path. Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus. 101 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constance Smedley | Life, she wrote here, is a perpetual crusade. Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus. 1-2 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constance Smedley | This book gives a stimulating account of the amazingly energetic theatrical activity undertaken and carried through by CS
and her husband in rural, urban, and university communities in England and the USA. It closes on... |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | CS
issued notice of elections to appoint the Provisional Committee of her projected London International Lyceum Club
, to realize her vision of a social institution for professional women of limited means. International Association of Lyceum Clubs. http://www.lyceumclub.org/en/history.htm. |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | On her twenty-eighth birthday, CS
's London International Lyceum Club
opened in magnificent premises Bowe, Nicola Gordon. “Constance and Maxwell Armfield: An American Interlude 1915-1922”. The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol. 14 , pp. 6-27. 9n14 Bowe, Nicola Gordon. “Constance and Maxwell Armfield: An American Interlude 1915-1922”. The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol. 14 , pp. 6-27. 9n14 Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus. 67 |
Textual Production | Constance Smedley | Having marked the beginning of her Lyceum Club
work with An April Princess, CS
marked its ending with another novel, The June Princess, a sober meditation on the experience of public life. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (18 February 1909): 57 Brockington, Grace. “&A World Fellowship&: The Founding of the International Lyceum Club for Women Artists and Writers”. Lyceum Club. 3 |
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