A dozen years after The Flower Book, CS
and her husband
did a similar collaboration (her words, his pictures) in The Armfields' Animal-Book, 1922 (she as Constance Smedley Armfield).
CS
used her married name of Constance Armfield to publish at New York a collection of folk-tales told for children entitled Wonder Tales of the World, partnered with illustrations by her husband, Maxwell Armfield
.
CS
(using her birth name) and her husband, Maxwell Armfield
(as illustrator), returned to the formula of their Wonder Tales of the World for another collection of folk stories for children, Tales from Timbuktu...
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...
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
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).