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Beryl Hearnden
Beryl "Beb" Hearnden (1897 – 22 January 1978) was an English progressive farmer, journalist and author. Biography From 1919 to about 1951, Beryl Hearnden lived with Lady Eve Balfour in a farming cooperative. They met through Balfour's sister, Mary, who was Hearnden's friend. She left to pursue a career as journalist in London. In the 1920s and 1930s, she wrote, with Balfour, several detective novels under the pseudonym Hearnden Balfour:() In 1939, she wrote, together with Louise Ernestine Matthaei Howard, ''What Country Women Use'', a book that advised women living in the country on how they could best use the natural resources around them. From 1953 to 1956, she was an officer of the Associated Country Women of the World The Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) is the largest international organization for both rural and urban women, with a membership of nine million in over 70 countries. ACWW holds a triennial conference and publishes a magazine, ''The Cou .... Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beryl Hearnden
Beryl "Beb" Hearnden (1897 – 22 January 1978) was an English progressive farmer, journalist and author. Biography From 1919 to about 1951, Beryl Hearnden lived with Lady Eve Balfour in a farming cooperative. They met through Balfour's sister, Mary, who was Hearnden's friend. She left to pursue a career as journalist in London. In the 1920s and 1930s, she wrote, with Balfour, several detective novels under the pseudonym Hearnden Balfour:() In 1939, she wrote, together with Louise Ernestine Matthaei Howard, ''What Country Women Use'', a book that advised women living in the country on how they could best use the natural resources around them. From 1953 to 1956, she was an officer of the Associated Country Women of the World The Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) is the largest international organization for both rural and urban women, with a membership of nine million in over 70 countries. ACWW holds a triennial conference and publishes a magazine, ''The Cou .... Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Eve Balfour
Lady Evelyn Barbara Balfour, (16 July 1898 – 16 January 1990) was a British farmer, educator, organic farming pioneer, and a founding figure in the organic movement. She was one of the first women to study agriculture at an English university, graduating from the institution now known as the University of Reading. Biography Balfour was one of the six children of Gerald, 2nd Earl of Balfour, and Lady Elizabeth Edith "Betty" Bulwer-Lytton, daughter of the 1st Earl of Lytton (former Viceroy of India). She was the niece of former prime minister Arthur J. Balfour. She decided at the age of 12 that she wanted to be a farmer. At the age of 17, she enrolled, as one of the first women students to do so, at Reading University College for the Diploma of Agriculture. After obtaining her Diploma in 1917, she completed a year's practical farming, living in 'digs' at 102 Basingstoke Road, Reading. During this time she worked at Manor Farm ploughing fields. She was subsequently appointed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Howard
Louise Ernestine Howard, Lady Howard (''née'' Matthaei; 26 December 1880 – 11 March 1969) was a classics scholar, international civil servant and supporter of organic farming. Early life and career Born at Kensington, she was the fourth daughter and the youngest of five children of the commission merchant Carl Hermann Ernst Matthaei and the musician Louise Henriette Elizabeth Sueur. Her eldest sister was the botanist Gabrielle Howard. The family was of German, French and Swiss ancestry. Howard attended South Hampstead High School and Newnham College, Cambridge. After obtaining a number of scholarships and prizes, she graduated with first-class honours in both parts of the classical tripos and eventually obtained a research fellowship. Howard was seen as a strict but encouraging and sympathetic teacher, having been appointed lecturer and director of studies in classics at Newnham College in 1909. Following the outbreak of the First World War, the half-German Howard, a suppor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Country Women Of The World
The Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) is the largest international organization for both rural and urban women, with a membership of nine million in over 70 countries. ACWW holds a triennial conference and publishes a magazine, ''The Countrywoman'', four times a year. Brief History Late 19th Century – rural women's groups were set up independently. Communication between groups enabled more country women to come together in friendship and work towards similar goals. London April 1929 – first International Conference of Rural Women – 46 women from 24 countries attended four-day conference. Vienna 1930 – conference decision by the International Council of Women to form a 'Liaison Committee' of rural women's organizations. Stockholm 1933 – the committee became the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW). In 1980, the Food and Agriculture Organization honored the Association with a commemorative medal calling it the 50th anniversary. In 2013, ACWW-affiliat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin. * January 7 – A cyclone destroys Darwin, Australia. * January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard, officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British Niger Coast Protectorate. * January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word ''computer'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. * January 23 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history, where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction. * January 31 – The Czechoslovak Trade Union Association is f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
