Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Writers' Club
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Leisure and Society | Violet Hunt | VH
hosted luncheons for Radclyffe Hall
, Bram Stoker
, H. G. Wells
and others at the Writers' Club
in Bruton Street. She later claimed: It was the first really literary and journalistic women's... |
| Leisure and Society | Ruby M. Ayres | She regularly held membership in a London club, belonging in the 1920s to the Lyceum Club
and the Writers' Club
, and later to the Ladies' Carlton Club
. |
| Leisure and Society | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | She belonged to a number of London clubs for professional women: the Writers' Club
(founded 1892, first president John Strange Winter
, which, she said, was invaluable in teaching her the need for assertiveness), O’Conor Eccles, Charlotte. “The Experience of a Woman Journalist”. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 153 , June 1893, pp. 830-8. 153 (June 1893): 836 |
| Occupation | John Strange Winter | JSW
became the first president of the all-female Writers' Club
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bainbridge, Oliver, and Alfred Edward Turner. John Strange Winter: A Volume of Personal Record. East and West, 1916. 104 |
| Occupation | Constance Smedley | As well as working in London as an illustrator and a theatrical designer, CS
involved herself in the issue of institutional support for young professional women. She approved the efforts of the Writers' Club
but... |
| Occupation | Beatrice Harraden | Apart from her suffrage affiliations, BH
also served on the committees of various women's organizations: the Writers' Club
(whose first president was John Strange Winter
), the London International Lyceum Club
(which Constance Smedley
founded... |
| Occupation | B. M. Croker | BMC
's accepted status as a writer is marked both by her membership of the Writers' Club
and the Sesame Club
, and by the visit at Bray in 1896 from Helen Black
, to... |
| politics | Dora Sigerson | The Club grew out of the Writers' Club
, an organization for women writers in London. It was the brainchild of Constance Smedley
, and Writers' Club members who were founding members of the Lyceum... |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | 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
,... |
| Textual Features | John Strange Winter | Winter's other writing commitments prompted her to cease editing Winter's Weekly in September 1894, but it continued publication until 1895. Winter wrote that she was handing over to a sister writer with capable hands, qtd. in Youngkin, Molly. “"Independent in Thought and Expression, Kindly and Tolerant in Tone": Henrietta Stannard, Golden Gates, and Gender Controversies in Fin-de-Siècle Periodicals”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 38 , No. 3, 2005, pp. 307-29. 320 |
| Textual Production | Constance Smedley | The author later wrote that this book sprang from her inner conflict between the values of the London artistic world (the golden world of woman's sheltered graciousness, of romantic and enthusiastic friendships pursued on... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Strange Winter | JSW
also used Winter's Weekly to promote some of her other interests: while president of the Writers' Club
, for instance, she reported here on the organisation's proceedings, and the nature and increasing size of... |
Timeline
1932: Margaret Louisa Woods edited a collection...
Women writers item
1932
Margaret Louisa Woods
edited a collection from the Poetry Circle
of the Writers' Club
, The Writers' Club Anthology.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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