Women's Institute

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...

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 ,...

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...

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...