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...
Publishing
Constance Smedley
Sylvia's Travels, 1911, another children's book, illustrated by her husband
and dedicated to Mimi Clementi
, was Smedley's own favourite.
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus, 1912, x, 416 pp.
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Sylvia’s Travels. J. M. Dent, 1911.
prelims
Publishing
Constance Smedley
This began as a series of articles in The Christian Science Monitor while CS
was living with her husband in New York.
Bowe, Nicola Gordon. “Constance and Maxwell Armfield: An American Interlude 1915-1922”. The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol.
14
, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1989, pp. 6-27.
17
The UCLA
copy of the resulting book, digitized and available through...
Residence
Constance Smedley
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
).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bowe, Nicola Gordon. “Constance and Maxwell Armfield: An American Interlude 1915-1922”. The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol.
14
, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1989, pp. 6-27.
15
Residence
Constance Smedley
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...
Textual Production
Vernon Lee
The Ballet of the Nations, a satirico-philosophicburlesque,
Bowe, Nicola Gordon. “Constance and Maxwell Armfield: An American Interlude 1915-1922”. The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol.
14
, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1989, pp. 6-27.
15
was commissioned after Constance Smedley
and Maxwell Armfield
invited VL
to speak at one of their Chelsea political meetings held to discuss the causes of...
Textual Production
Constance Smedley
The Pageant of Progress was first put on by CS
and her husband
in Fromehall Park, Stroud (then a field, now a rugby club).