Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1934.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Carswell | CC
's father, George Gray Macfarlane
, had worked as a young man in the Caribbean and the USA. He exported textiles to the West Indies and was president and a founder of the YMCA |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Five years after Ivy came home from college, her mother's death left her, her brother Noel, and Martyn Mowll
as joint trustees and guardians of her four younger sisters: Vera
, Judy
, Topsy
... |
Occupation | Una Marson | A year later she moved on to a similar position with the YMCA
. During this time she was involved in amateur drama. One of her projects was to raise the funds to stage a... |
Occupation | Annie S. Swan | She was able to put her mourning behind her when her husband was elected Mayor of Hertford, and a great deal of support fell to her lot, with some social duties of her own. Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1934. 126ff |
Occupation | Barbara Pym | |
Performance of text | Evelyn Glover | EG
's one-act play A Bit of Blighty was performed for an audience of soldiers staying at the YMCA
's Shakespeare Hut on Keppel Street in London. Allardyce Nicoll
and J. P. Wearing
give... |
politics | Evelyn Glover | Although so little is known about EG
's life, her early plays show that she was a committed suffragist. During the First World War, she showed her support for the war effort by having plays... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Glover | During the war, the YMCA
opened several huts and night hostels in London for soldiers who had recently returned from overseas. The performance was part of a series of musical and dramatic shows planned to... |
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