Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus, 1912, x, 416 pp.
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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]... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Smedley | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Smedley | They had known each other as students at Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus, 1912, x, 416 pp. 179-83 |
Friends, Associates | Constance Smedley | In Birmingham CS
had become friendly with Coulson Kernahan
, through whom she also met Flora Klickmann
. Edgar Pemberton
brought her acquainted with theatrical figures she deeply admired: Sir Charles Wyndham
, and Mary Moore |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
met Hugh Walpole after receiving a fan letter he sent her in 1907. They met for tea at the Lyceum Club
, a London women's social club that had been inaugurated by Constance Smedley |
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/. |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | They contacted sixty well-known women journalists and authors; only two replied. Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus, 1912, x, 416 pp. 59 |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | Since the Langham Place Group
had provided a social space for women in 1860, several organizations had already challenged the flourishing institution of men's clubs. The Lyceum Club
came on the scene at a time... |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | On marrying, CS
withdrew from her work with the Lyceum Clubs
to spend her time writing and illustrating in collaboration with her husband, and then developing symbolist performance techniques. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Smedley |
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... |
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, 1991. 91 Tate, Audrey. Ada Cambridge: Her Life and Work, 1844-1926. Melbourne University Press, 1991. 192 |
Occupation | Anna Wickham | She did, however, occasionally perform after her marriage, singing at venues such as the Lyceum Club
. Wickham, Anna et al. “Fragment of an Autobiography: Prelude to a Spring Clean”. The Writings of Anna Wickham Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 51-157. 151 |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | CS
issued notice of elections to appoint the Provisional Committee of her projected London International Lyceum Club
, to realize her vision of a social institution for professional women of limited means. 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... |
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