A couple of years after her return from America, CS
set a novel there: The Unholy Experiment, which draws on but radically alters some of her own experience. She dedicated it to her...
Family and Intimate relationships
Constance Smedley
CS
's father, William Thomas Smedley
, was a chartered accountant and company director, a philanthropist, a free-thinker, and a bibliophile. His magnificent Shakespeare
-Bacon
book collection, including more than a hundred volumes of...
Literary responses
Constance Smedley
Smedley's father
recognized her hand in this essay when he read it at his club, but his genial good humour ensured that he was amused rather than angry.
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus, 1912, x, 416 pp.
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Occupation
Constance Smedley
They contacted sixty well-known women journalists and authors; only two replied.
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus, 1912, x, 416 pp.
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Feeling dubious about women's business abilities, they took advice from Smedley's father
(who over the years supported the club to the extent...
Occupation
Constance Smedley
The club was to provide a careers bureau, a permanent art collection (as well as exhibitions designed to make women's work from one country known to citizens of another), a journal, a library (based on...
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Texts
Norton, Caroline, and William Thomas Smedley. Bingen on the Rhine. John C. Winston, 1883.