Women's Institute

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...

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. She has no romantic illusions about pastoral life:...

VW addressed the Women's Institute in Brighton; she turned her lecture into the essay The Leaning Tower shortly afterwards.

VW gave a talk to the RodmellWomen's Institute on her participation in the Dreadnought Hoax of February 1910.

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...