Pioneer Club

Around this time, MMD also met Thomas Hardy . Another woman writer who became her associate was John Strange Winter , whom she met through her membership in the Pioneer Club .

As well as the Society of Authors , MC belonged to the feminist Pioneer Club . The Men and Women's Club , however, felt her too radical and unpredictable to be desirable as a member...

SG now joined the Pioneer Club (founded by temperance campaigner Emily Caroline Langton Massingberd in 1892), which she called a club of women engaged in philanthropic pursuits, moral and religious. In May 1894, however...

SG began giving public lectures this year, the year after publishing her ground-breaking novel on syphilis, The Heavenly Twins. She lectured at the Pioneer Club , the Sunday Lecture Society (at St George's Hall...

She was also a member of the London-based Writers' Club , the Women's Institute —which embraced an educational programme of appalling size, to the frivolous mind—and the Pioneer Club , which counted IOF ,...

IOF gave her first public speech when she decided to support striking female weavers in Leeds in October 1888. Despite her nervousness—she sometimes characterized herself as terrified by the faces gazing at me—expressing...