International Association of Lyceum Clubs

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Travel Constance Smedley
From the beginning CS saw her enterprise as cosmopolitan, designed for promoting understanding between different nations and cultures. She travelled widely in order to set up clubhouses in other European countries: in the Netherlands (Amsterdam...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Constance Smedley
Life, she wrote here, is a perpetual crusade.
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus.
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She had had an irresistible desire to crystallize every phase in the form of some sort of story for grown-ups or children, but the experiences had...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Constance Smedley
This book gives a stimulating account of the amazingly energetic theatrical activity undertaken and carried through by CS and her husband in rural, urban, and university communities in England and the USA. It closes on...
Textual Production Constance Smedley
Having marked the beginning of her Lyceum Club work with An April Princess, CS marked its ending with another novel, The June Princess, a sober meditation on the experience of public life.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(18 February 1909): 57
Brockington, Grace. “&A World Fellowship&: The Founding of the International Lyceum Club for Women Artists and Writers”. Lyceum Club.
3
Publishing Constance Smedley
In October 1905 the Lyceum Club journal carried an article by CS entitled The Stony Path.
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus.
101
politics Dora Sigerson
DS helped found the London International Lyceum Club , which was established by Constance Smedley as a club for professional women on an equal footing with the long-standing London clubs for professional men.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
International Association of Lyceum Clubs. http://www.lyceumclub.org/en/history.htm.
Other Life Event Ella Hepworth Dixon
EHD served as Vice-President of the Femina Vie Heureuse and Northcliffe Prizes for Literature. She served with Alice Meynell on the Executive Committee of the Lyceum Club .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson.
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Occupation Constance Smedley
They contacted sixty well-known women journalists and authors; only two replied.
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus.
59
Feeling dubious about women's business abilities, they took advice from Smedley's father (who over the years supported the club to the extent...
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
The Lyceum involved CS in various related activities. It was the reason for which she learned the art of public speaking, which frightened her at first. One of her crusades was a campaign to support...
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
This began with their...
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.
91
Tate, Audrey. Ada Cambridge: Her Life and Work, 1844-1926. Melbourne University Press.
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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 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...
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, pp. 51-157.
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