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Building up contacts for new Club

Our lives were very full, full of interest, full of work, full of friends and interesting acquaintances. I was writing a weekly column for a Plymouth paper, called “The man in the street”, a sort of London letter of politics, social reform and so on, and I often used to wonder with some amusement what my readers would have thought had they seen me writing it, for I often did it while I was cooking dinner, had one hand on the pen and another on a spoon with which I was stirring a saucepan. I know I often had to pull myself up and eliminate what I feared to be the feminine touch, but I believe I quite succeeded in living up to the fiction of my masculine “nom de plume”. But it was not many months before our new work outgrew the tiny flat

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in which we began to rebuild what we had had to pull down in leaving the West London Mission. There was associated with us a group of people none of whom were very well-to-do. There was an engineer, a former mill-hand from the North, a city merchant, one or two shop-girls, these and a few of our older Club girls, tailoresses and dressmakers, formed the nucleus of our first Committee….Between us we raised 8/- a week and took two rooms just off Euston Road for our Girls’ Club, workhouse teas, literary Society, boys’ Club and so on….
 

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