She busied herself in volunteering, raising money for university scholarships for girls, working on a female candidate's (unsuccessful) municipal election campaign, volunteering in the local Child Welfare Clinic
, and starting up an amateur drama...
Occupation
Phyllis Bentley
In the 1950s PB
increased her volunteer community involvement. She firmly believed that small local organizations were a essential part of English civil life: her life's work as a regional novelist was parallelled by a...