YWCA

FRH grew up in a pious Anglican family, and was later deeply religious herself, as evident in her writings. She developed an interest in the Church Missionary Society (as well as its Irish counterpart), the...

AMM was a social crusader, interested in temperance, combating poverty, labour issues, Canadian nationalism (or Confederation), and women's rights. She wrote that poverty was a source of women's special inequality in the industrial system. These...

The convention had been held in Arkansas the same year. MR dedicated the volume to The Young Women's Christian Association s in the United States of America.

The play, a lively mixture of comedy and absurdism, explores sexual relations within the young bohemian set. Nancy, a seventeen-year-old Northern girl who has just arrived in London, taps on a window to ask directions...

AB remained silent about her brief foray into paid work, as a governess. At Bolton Le Moors she began keeping house for her brother Walter. She worked as a conservationist to preserve various monuments...

She also frequented Coventry girls' schools. Benefactions came together with conservation. In 1922 she bought, as a reserve for seagulls and primroses, a stretch of coast and cliffs between Polperro and Talland that was likely...

When much of Coventry was flattened by bombs on 14-15 November 1940, Amy and Angela worked all day clearing up damage at the burnt-out YWCA building.

UM mounted a production of her own play, At What a Price, at the YWCA hostel in Great Russell Street, London, using members of the League of Coloured Peoples as performers.

That same year she contributed several articles to publications associated with the Young Women's Christian Association , The Home Friend and Silver Bells. She also published an anonymous tract entitled Such a Blessing....

Religion can hardly be separated here from social issues, particularly those of class and female sexuality. Flora, leaving her sanctuary in the Delmer home, says indignantly that they took her in because they cared about...

The Woman's Press published MR 's Women at the World's Crossroads, a volume of essays given as speeches the seventh national convention of the Young Women's Christian Association s of the USA.