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Occupation | Virginia Woolf | VW
addressed the Women's Institute
in Brighton; she turned her lecture into the essay The Leaning Tower shortly afterwards. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 733 |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | VW
gave a talk to the RodmellWomen's Institute
on her participation in the Dreadnought Hoax of February 1910. Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 19 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 735 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Virginia Woolf | VW
seems to have had the first idea for this novel on 2 April 1938, with publication of Three Guineas imminent and having just begun work on her life of Roger Fry, as something random... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Doreen Wallace | DW
does not write as a promoter. To her the Fens as a whole—including the Norfolk marsh-land—are dismally uninspiring from a scenic point of view. Wallace, Doreen. East Anglia. Batsford. 71 |
Occupation | Susan Tweedsmuir | 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... |
Occupation | Susan Tweedsmuir | While she lived in Canada, during the bleak years of the Depression, ST
established the Lady Tweedsmuir Prairie Library Scheme
, a circulating library of some 40,000 volumes donated in response to her efforts... |
Occupation | Flora Annie Steel | 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... |
Occupation | Vita Sackville-West | 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
. Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura. 225 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 350 |
Occupation | Berta Ruck | 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... |
Publishing | A. Mary F. Robinson | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Oakley | 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. Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell. prelims |
Occupation | Una Marson | UM
made a series of influential radio broadcasts for the BBC
's West Indian Service on the Women's Institute
movement in Britain. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 154, 156n50 |
Textual Production | Constance Lytton | CL
addressed a meeting of the Women's Institute
on the topic Our Penal System. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (4 March 1911): 13 |
politics | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
was elected President of the St Mary BourneWomen's Institute
. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 253 |
Residence | Kathleen E. Innes | 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... |
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