International Association of Lyceum Clubs

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 .

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.

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]...

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 .

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...

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.

Life, she wrote here, is a perpetual crusade. 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...

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...

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.

On her twenty-eighth birthday, CS 's London International Lyceum Club opened in magnificent premises at 128 Piccadilly (having nearly settled for leasing space over Lyons Cafe).

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.

CS 's sister Ida shared her acting talent and her feminist principles, but her interests diverged from those of Constance when, after holding the first science scholarship at Newnham , she decided on a career...

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

They contacted sixty well-known women journalists and authors; only two replied. Feeling dubious about women's business abilities, they took advice from Smedley's father (who over the years supported the club to the extent...

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...