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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 |
politics | Dora Sigerson | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. International Association of Lyceum Clubs. http://www.lyceumclub.org/en/history.htm. |
Occupation | Beatrice Harraden | 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... |
Other Life Event | Ella Hepworth Dixon | 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
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson. 121-3 |
Occupation | Ada Cambridge | 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. Bradstock, Margaret, and Louise Wakeling. Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life of Ada Cambridge. Penguin. 91 Tate, Audrey. Ada Cambridge: Her Life and Work, 1844-1926. Melbourne University Press. 192 |
death | Ada Cambridge | 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]... |
Leisure and Society | Ruby M. Ayres | 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
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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