Women's Institute

During the 1920s and 1930s, EC became increasingly involved in amateur dramatics, and became an expert and a spokesperson for amateur theatre. Between 1924 and 1935, she acted as an adjudicator for...

EMD was elected president of the Women's Institute in Kentisbeare, a position she held for the rest of her life.

In her use of the diary form with prosaic narrator, EMD was probably influenced by George and Weedon Grossmith 's The Diary of a Nobody (1892). The autobiographical fiction, set in a small Devon village...

She was also a member of the London-based Writers' Club , the Women's Institute —which embraced an educational programme of appalling size, to the frivolous mind—and the Pioneer Club , which counted IOF ,...

KPF continued to write plays during the 1920s and 30s though theatrical agents always turned them down. She kept only those few manuscripts which she could not bear to burn. Titles include Darling Girl: a...

KEI was elected President of the St Mary BourneWomen's Institute .

Kathleen threw herself into local community life as energetically as she had done into international issues. She immediately became a member of the St Mary Bourne Women's Institute , one of the many local organizations...

CL addressed a meeting of the Women's Institute on the topic Our Penal System.

UM made a series of influential radio broadcasts for the BBC 's West Indian Service on the Women's Institute movement in Britain.

A Note about the Title explains what she means by Jerusalem: a land we aspire to live in, regardless of the fact that we're unlikely to even make it.AO describes the importance of...

In June 1899 she published another work of literary criticism, The Social Novel in France, in the Contemporary Review. Her name was given as Mary James Darmesteter. The essay was based on...

BR went on, therefore, as a lecturer or entertainer. She recalls speaking to a Women's Institute or Townswomen's Guild audience from some English industrial town on a day's outing to Wales, to fill the gap...

VSW became something of a recluse around the years of the Second World War. Nevertheless she played her part in local activities: the National Trust and the Women's Institute .

During the First World War she travelled the country giving lectures with slides shown on her own magic lantern, organized the knitting of comforters for the troops, and supported the Women's Institute (whose earliest...

During the First World War Susan Buchan served as a VAD and ran a day nursery in a poor area of London. After the war, living near Oxford, she founded a branch of the then...