Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
162, 170, 175
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Edith Craig | During the 1920s and 1930s, EC
became increasingly involved in amateur dramatics, and became an expert and a spokesperson for amateur theatre. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 162, 170, 175 |
Occupation | E. M. Delafield | EMD
was elected president of the Women's Institute
in Kentisbeare, a position she held for the rest of her life. Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann. 61 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Delafield | In her use of the diary form with prosaic narrator, EMD
was probably influenced by George
and Weedon Grossmith
's The Diary of a Nobody (1892). The autobiographical fiction, set in a small Devon village... |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | 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
,... |
Textual Production | Kate Parry Frye | KPF
continued to write plays during the 1920s and 30s though theatrical agents always turned them down. She kept only those few manuscripts which she could not bear to burn. Titles include Darling Girl: a... |
politics | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
was elected President of the St Mary BourneWomen's Institute
. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 253 |
Residence | Kathleen E. Innes | Kathleen threw herself into local community life as energetically as she had done into international issues. She immediately became a member of the St Mary Bourne Women's Institute
, one of the many local organizations... |
Textual Production | Constance Lytton | CL
addressed a meeting of the Women's Institute
on the topic Our Penal System. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (4 March 1911): 13 |
Occupation | Una Marson | UM
made a series of influential radio broadcasts for the BBC
's West Indian Service on the Women's Institute
movement in Britain. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 154, 156n50 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Oakley | A Note about the Title explains what she means by Jerusalem: a land we aspire to live in, regardless of the fact that we're unlikely to even make it. Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell. prelims |
Publishing | A. Mary F. Robinson | In June 1899 she published another work of literary criticism, The Social Novel in France, in the Contemporary Review. Her name was given as Mary James Darmesteter. The essay was based on... |
Occupation | Berta Ruck | BR
went on, therefore, as a lecturer or entertainer. She recalls speaking to a Women's Institute
or Townswomen's Guild
audience from some English industrial town on a day's outing to Wales, to fill the gap... |
Occupation | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
became something of a recluse around the years of the Second World War. Nevertheless she played her part in local activities: the National Trust
and the Women's Institute
. Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura. 225 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 350 |
Occupation | Flora Annie Steel | During the First World War she travelled the country giving lectures with slides shown on her own magic lantern, organized the knitting of comforters for the troops, and supported the Women's Institute
(whose earliest... |
Occupation | Susan Tweedsmuir | During the First World War Susan Buchan served as a VAD
and ran a day nursery in a poor area of London. After the war, living near Oxford, she founded a branch of the then... |
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