Women's Institute

A Note about the Title explains what she means by Jerusalem: a land we aspire to live in, regardless of the fact that we're unlikely to even make it.AO describes the importance of...

VW seems to have had the first idea for this novel on 2 April 1938, with publication of Three Guineas imminent and having just begun work on her life of Roger Fry, as something random...

VSW became something of a recluse around the years of the Second World War. Nevertheless she played her part in local activities: the National Trust and the Women's Institute .

BR went on, therefore, as a lecturer or entertainer. She recalls speaking to a Women's Institute or Townswomen's Guild audience from some English industrial town on a day's outing to Wales, to fill the gap...

During the 1920s and 1930s, EC became increasingly involved in amateur dramatics, and became an expert and a spokesperson for amateur theatre. Between 1924 and 1935, she acted as an adjudicator for...

EMD was elected president of the Women's Institute in Kentisbeare, a position she held for the rest of her life.

UM made a series of influential radio broadcasts for the BBC 's West Indian Service on the Women's Institute movement in Britain.

VW addressed the Women's Institute in Brighton; she turned her lecture into the essay The Leaning Tower shortly afterwards.

VW gave a talk to the RodmellWomen's Institute on her participation in the Dreadnought Hoax of February 1910.

During the First World War Susan Buchan served as a VAD and ran a day nursery in a poor area of London. After the war, living near Oxford, she founded a branch of the then...

While she lived in Canada, during the bleak years of the Depression, ST established the Lady Tweedsmuir Prairie Library Scheme , a circulating library of some 40,000 volumes donated in response to her efforts...

During the First World War she travelled the country giving lectures with slides shown on her own magic lantern, organized the knitting of comforters for the troops, and supported the Women's Institute (whose earliest...

KEI was elected President of the St Mary BourneWomen's Institute .

She was also a member of the London-based Writers' Club , the Women's Institute —which embraced an educational programme of appalling size, to the frivolous mind—and the Pioneer Club , which counted IOF ,...

In June 1899 she published another work of literary criticism, The Social Novel in France, in the Contemporary Review. Her name was given as Mary James Darmesteter. The essay was based on...