Women's Institute

Kathleen threw herself into local community life as energetically as she had done into international issues. She immediately became a member of the St Mary Bourne Women's Institute , one of the many local organizations...

CL addressed a meeting of the Women's Institute on the topic Our Penal System.

KPF continued to write plays during the 1920s and 30s though theatrical agents always turned them down. She kept only those few manuscripts which she could not bear to burn. Titles include Darling Girl: a...

DW does not write as a promoter. To her the Fens as a whole—including the Norfolk marsh-land—are dismally uninspiring from a scenic point of view. She has no romantic illusions about pastoral life:...

In her use of the diary form with prosaic narrator, EMD was probably influenced by George and Weedon Grossmith 's The Diary of a Nobody (1892). The autobiographical fiction, set in a small Devon village...