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Dedications | Constance Smedley | Stanley Unwin
's wife
read the manuscript and told her husband that he had got to publish the novel for the sake of its ideas. (Unwin was an internationally-minded pacifist.) The firm signed a contract... |
Education | Constance Smedley | After this she became a star student Brockington, Grace. “&A World Fellowship&: The Founding of the International Lyceum Club for Women Artists and Writers”. Lyceum Club. 2 Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus, 1912, x, 416 pp. 15 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Smedley | CS
married Maxwell Ashby Armfield
, a painter, book illustrator, and poet, later a theosophist. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Smedley, under Armfield |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Smedley | Her husband, Maxwell Armfield
, outlived her by thirty-one years (to die on 23 January 1972). He later said that his mature style dated from the time of his wife's death. He left many self-portraits... |
Friends, Associates | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | During the Schützes' pacifist years it was only gradually that they began to find some support from like-minded people, like Bertrand Russell
and Ramsay MacDonald
(though GHS
felt the latter was a fair-weather pacifist), and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Jellicoe | The year 1974 marks a turning point in AJ
's writing career, beginning a second phase which proved just as significant as the first.. Soon after moving with her family from London to Lyme Regis... |
Literary responses | Vernon Lee | Lee's publication was panned in the Times Literary Supplement, but found strong support from Desmond MacCarthy
, writing as Affable Hawk in the New Statesman, and from G. B. Shaw
in the Nation... |
Literary Setting | Constance Smedley | CS
defined the theme of this novel as the gulf between English and American attitudes to the law. Law, she wrote, was respected in England but seen in the USA as merely a convenience or... |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | The Cotswold Players
, a small group of theatrically accomplished amateurs, was conceived at a meeting in the house of CS
and Maxwell Armfield
in Rodborough, to bring plays by Smedley and others to rural audiences. “About Us. History”. The Cotswold Players. |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | Back in London they saw at the Little Theatre run by dancing teacher Margaret Morristhe drama of our dreams: voice and movement and picture accurately synthesized. Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus, 1912, x, 416 pp. 217 |
Publishing | Constance Smedley | Also in 1934, on 29 March, CS
had written to The Times, with her husband
and six others, to propose that an oak-tree should be planted and conserved in every English sea-port in memory... |
Publishing | Constance Smedley | CS
(as Constance Armfield) and her husband, Maxwell Armfield
, published the first of their written-and-illustrated collaborations, The Flower Book. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (13 October 1910): 378 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Armfield |
Publishing | Constance Smedley | A dozen years after The Flower Book, CS
and her husband
did a similar collaboration (her words, his pictures) in The Armfields' Animal-Book, 1922 (she as Constance Smedley Armfield). TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (16 November 1922): 745 |
Publishing | Constance Smedley | CS
used her married name of Constance Armfield to publish at New York a collection of folk-tales told for children entitled Wonder Tales of the World, partnered with illustrations by her husband, Maxwell Armfield
. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Constance Smedley | CS
(using her birth name) and her husband, Maxwell Armfield
(as illustrator), returned to the formula of their Wonder Tales of the World for another collection of folk stories for children, Tales from Timbuktu... |
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