Margaret Dean Smith

Her new step father was a shy but successful Arts and Crafts architect who had designed the Mary Ward House (with Cecil Claude Brewer).

[2] From a young age she was surrounded by people involved in the revival of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

She was educated by tutors before she went to St Albans High School for Girls, which she left in 1917.

[1] Her school education was complete but she went on to live in 1921 above the headquarters of the Art-Workers' Guild.

It was originally small so that the dancing master could hide it under his cloak and consult it surreptitiously.