Maxwell Armfield

Crucial to the birth of the Players was the fact that CS began her life with Maxwell Armfield (who felt that an artist's dedication was well served by retreat from social and urban life) in...

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. They then founded the radical, avant-garde Greenleaf Theatre

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...

Maxwell Armfield 's frontispiece to Commoners' Rights, 1912, shows Chippingdun, the book's fictional version of Minchinhampton. His later illustrations also show the town or its beautiful surroundings. The work is dedicated to...

Sylvia's Travels, 1911, another children's book, illustrated by her husband and dedicated to Mimi Clementi , was Smedley's own favourite.

This began as a series of articles in The Christian Science Monitor while CS was living with her husband in New York. The UCLA copy of the resulting book, digitized and available through...

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...