International Association of Lyceum Clubs

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...

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 .

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.

In October 1905 the Lyceum Club journal carried an article by CS entitled The Stony Path.

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.

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...

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...