Maxwell Armfield

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...

The Ballet of the Nations, a satirico-philosophic burlesque, was commissioned after Constance Smedley and Maxwell Armfield invited VL to speak at one of their Chelsea political meetings held to discuss the causes...

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...

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...

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...

CS married Maxwell Ashby Armfield , a painter, book illustrator, and poet, later a theosophist.

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...

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.

CS and her husband , having obtained visas, migrated from London to New York, USA, where they rented a furnished studio at 13 Gramercy Park (at the National Arts Club ).

CS (as Constance Armfield) and her husband, Maxwell Armfield , published the first of their written-and-illustrated collaborations, The Flower Book.

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).

The Pageant of Progress was first put on by CS and her husband in Fromehall Park, Stroud (then a field, now a rugby club).

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 .

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...

After this she became a star student at the Birmingham School of Art, an even more exciting arena for adventure. Again her memoirs lovingly enumerate the names of her teachers, fellow-students (divided...