Maxwell Armfield

The Ballet of the Nations, a satirico-philosophic burlesque, was commissioned after Constance Smedley and Maxwell Armfield invited VL to speak at one of their Chelsea political meetings held to discuss the causes...

The Pageant of Progress was first put on by CS and her husband in Fromehall Park, Stroud (then a field, now a rugby club).

Crucial to the birth of the Players was the fact that CS began her life with Maxwell Armfield (who felt that an artist's dedication was well served by retreat from social and urban life) in...

CS and her husband , having obtained visas, migrated from London to New York, USA, where they rented a furnished studio at 13 Gramercy Park (at the National Arts Club ).

Maxwell Armfield 's frontispiece to Commoners' Rights, 1912, shows Chippingdun, the book's fictional version of Minchinhampton. His later illustrations also show the town or its beautiful surroundings. The work is dedicated to...

Sylvia's Travels, 1911, another children's book, illustrated by her husband and dedicated to Mimi Clementi , was Smedley's own favourite.

This began as a series of articles in The Christian Science Monitor while CS was living with her husband in New York. The UCLA copy of the resulting book, digitized and available through...

Also in 1934, on 29 March, CS had written to The Times, with her husband and six others, to propose that an oak-tree should be planted and conserved in every English sea-port in memory...

CS (as Constance Armfield) and her husband, Maxwell Armfield , published the first of their written-and-illustrated collaborations, The Flower Book.

A dozen years after The Flower Book, CS and her husband did a similar collaboration (her words, his pictures) in The Armfields' Animal-Book, 1922 (she as Constance Smedley Armfield).

CS used her married name of Constance Armfield to publish at New York a collection of folk-tales told for children entitled Wonder Tales of the World, partnered with illustrations by her husband, Maxwell Armfield .

CS (using her birth name) and her husband, Maxwell Armfield (as illustrator), returned to the formula of their Wonder Tales of the World for another collection of folk stories for children, Tales from Timbuktu...

Back in London they saw at the Little Theatre run by dancing teacher Margaret Morristhe drama of our dreams: voice and movement and picture accurately synthesized. They then founded the radical, avant-garde Greenleaf Theatre

The Cotswold Players , a small group of theatrically accomplished amateurs, was conceived at a meeting in the house of CS and Maxwell Armfield in Rodborough, to bring plays by Smedley and others to rural audiences.

CS defined the theme of this novel as the gulf between English and American attitudes to the law. Law, she wrote, was respected in England but seen in the USA as merely a convenience or...