Constance Smedley

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Standard Name: Smedley, Constance
Birth Name: Constance Anne Smedley
Nickname: The Princess
Nickname: Peter
Married Name: Constance Armfield
Married Name: Constance Smedley Armfield
Beginning early in the twentieth century, CS published forty books, about twenty of them novels and the rest plays, children's books, and non-fiction including a polemical feminist manifesto and a book of memoirs. Her writing was only one aspect of her career: through her theatrical ideals, teaching, and practice (writing and directing plays and pageants, not all of them published) it connected with her work in the visual arts: embroidery, illustration, and social movements.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Ella D'Arcy
Lane and Harland were centres of literary social life in London. EDA had many friends among writers, many of them New Women. They included Evelyn Sharp , and Constance Smedley (who found her entirely sincere...
Education Flora Klickmann
FK also studied first at Trinity College of Music and later at the Royal College of Organists. She intended to pursue a concert career, and meanwhile became at an early age only the second woman...

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