Constance Smedley

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Standard Name: Smedley, Constance
Birth Name: Constance Anne Smedley
Nickname: The Princess
Nickname: Peter
Married Name: Constance Armfield
Married Name: Constance Smedley Armfield
Beginning early in the twentieth century, CS published forty books, about twenty of them novels and the rest plays, children's books, and non-fiction including a polemical feminist manifesto and a book of memoirs. Her writing was only one aspect of her career: through her theatrical ideals, teaching, and practice (writing and directing plays and pageants, not all of them published) it connected with her work in the visual arts: embroidery, illustration, and social movements.

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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.
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, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1989, pp. 6-27.
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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...
Travel Joanna Trollope
She spent valuable and regular time, however, at her beloved Minchinhampton. Today this little town, with its great natural beauty and improved and modernised cottages, looks like a middle-class or privileged enclave; but only...

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