# Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society

True stories of pioneering Cambridge women 1870-1920, and mid-century fiction

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## [20th-century book club schedule 2026](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/20th-century-book-club-schedule-2026)

_2026-08-09 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

Plus your suggestions of the best overlooked novels by women writers

## [August letter from Cambridge](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/august-letter-from-cambridge)

_2026-08-02 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

Summer reading (new books and old), suffragettes and sisters

## [Some personal book news](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/july-and-some-personal-book-news)

_2026-07-20 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

My chapter about Ellen Wordsworth Darwin published this July

## [Ray Strachey, Cambridge suffragist](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/ray-strachey-cambridge-suffragist)

_2026-07-13 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

‘If we get the vote now, it will be entirely due to her'

## [July letter from Cambridge](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/a-july-letter)

_2026-07-05 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

Night & Day v. Virginia Woolf's Night and Day | Mary Paley Marshall | new exhibitions

## [Elizabeth Jenkins (4): elegance and heartache](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/elizabeth-jenkins-4-elegance-and)

_2026-06-24 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

A dangerous affair of the heart. But who is the tortoise, and who is the hare?

## [Elizabeth Jenkins (3): lives of formidable women](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/elizabeth-jenkins-3-lives-of-formidable)

_2026-06-08 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

Connecting fiction and stories from life

## [The education of Helen Gladstone (1849–1925)](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/the-education-of-helen-gladstone)

_2026-05-26 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

'Wanted at home'

## [A May morning letter from Cambridge](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/a-may-morning-letter-from-cambridge)

_2026-05-18 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

Books, bouquets of flowers and underground poetry

## [A Mother's Day gift](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/a-mothers-day-gift)

_2026-05-10 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

Susannah Wedgwood Darwin (1765-1817)

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## [Elizabeth Jenkins (2): The Tortoise and the Hare](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/elizabeth-jenkins-2-the-tortoise)

_2026-05-04 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

An author who really should be better known.

## [April letter from Cambridge](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/april-letter-from-cambridge)

_2026-04-19 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

84, Charing Cross Road and the Cambridge professor

## [Those daring Olivier sisters (2)](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/those-daring-olivier-sisters-2)

_2026-04-12 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

A love letter from Rupert Brooke to Noel Olivier, and her no-nonsense reply

## [Those daring Olivier sisters (1)](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/those-daring-olivier-sisters)

_2026-04-02 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

Part 1: Virginia Woolf and the Neo-Pagans

## [The secret library in St Paul's](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/the-library-project)

_2026-03-21 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

Christopher Wren's hidden gem

## [Elizabeth Jenkins (1): becoming a writer](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/strangeness-and-magic)

_2026-03-08 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

Pernel Strachey (1876-1951), Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Jenkins

## [A Cambridge letter for a Spring morning](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/a-cambridge-letter-for-a-spring-morning)

_2026-03-01 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

With some exciting book news in 2026

## [The Bishop's wife](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/the-bishops-wife)

_2026-02-21 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

Louise Creighton 1850–1936

## [Woman with a camera](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/woman-with-a-camera)

_2026-02-14 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

Lettice Ramsey (1898–1985)

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## [A Cambridge love letter](https://akennedysmith.substack.com/p/a-cambridge-love-letter-february)

_2026-02-03 · Ann Kennedy Smith_

February 2026: celebrating love and other imperfections