The Amazing and Preposterous Constance Smedley
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Constance Smedley was born in 1876. By 1908, she was a celebrity: a successful artist, playwright, novelist and feminist journalist. She had founded the International Lyceum Club for Women, established its clubhouse in London and overseen the foundation of similar Lyceum Clubs in Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin and Florence... And then she did three surprising things. She gave up the Lyceum Club. She married an impoverished homosexual artist called Maxwell Armfield. And she renounced London and the international scene and set up house in Minchinhampton, where - amongst other things - she started the Cotswold Players. What makes Constance Smedley's achievements all the more remarkable is that from the age of six she was unable to walk without the aid of crutches.
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