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The Dining Club, 1890
This post is currently being revised and expanded and will be published soon in my blog’s new home, ‘Lost in the Archives with Ann Kennedy Smith’: for more information and regular updates, please consider subscribing.
Cambridge-based writing group, meeting once a week
Home of an important collection of work by artists who lived and worked in North West Essex in the 20th and 21st centuries
Dublin painter and designer
Stories of early business women who broke the mould
Some of this. And some of that.
A lifetime of reading and book collecting leads me to share stories of literary life: books old and new which inspire and comfort me and the people I meet.
Trying to avoid society's pigeonholes
Thoughts on life, writing, creativity and magic
All things Bookish and more!
The Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society 
Would love to read more – you have certainly left us on a cliff hanger …
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Thank you Tamsin! Lovely to have your encouragement. I wish I could have been at one of their dinner parties…
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An outing in the company of Caroline Jebb – it’s just as if we were allowed a fly-on-the-wall glance into her world. To be continued…. ?? Yes, please!
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Thanks very much Godela, a lot of it is based on Caroline’s letters, so I hope she would approve (though she was hard to please…).
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Gets better all the time!
SIMON B
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Many thanks Simon, this was inspired by my MA dissertation research last year into the very different marriages of the women in the group, and imagining what they might have discussed.
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Hi Ann, just letting you know I got this as I knew you were wondering how WordPress were sending them out.
Off to London this week for Axl’s family reunion, perhaps a dog walk and coffee on Tues am if you are free
S x
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