Glyn, whom she introduced into British society. From 1912 Daisy began acting as leader and hostess of the 'Warwick Circle' at Easton Lodge, often based around select garden parties and largely dedicated to a reinvention of supposed folk traditions, pageants, dances and dialect plays, under the banner of the Dunmow and District Progressive Club, with newly written 'vernacular' plays performed at Lady Warwick's Barn Theatre at Little Easton. The purpose of the enterprise was the enlightenment of the local lower classes. Daisy commented on the coming endeavour in a 1911 letter to R. D. Blumenfeld with: "We shall be a little group of the Salt of the Earth in the Dunmow District soon!" Conrad Noel, the 'Red Vicar' of Thaxted, whom Daisy had appointed to his incumbency, was a critical supporter stating that this "...smacked of [the] Bloomsbury" set. Members of Cecil Sharp's English Folk Dance Society performed at the inaugural event at The Barn Theatre and Sharp noted that Daisy's vote of thanks contained a vision of "merry dancers on village greens and the people of Easton dancing to meet the people of Dunmow". Those who contributed and gravitated to be entertained in the 'Warwick Circle' were fellow socialist political proponents and literary figures, including H. G. Wells, Lancelot and Hugh Cranmer-Byng (playwrights and scions of the Torrington baronetcy), Samuel Levy Bensusan (dialect playwright and writer), Ramsay MacDonald, J. W. Robertson Scott, Howell Arthur Gwynne, Sir Walter Gilbey, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, J. M. Barrie, George Bernard Shaw, Cecil Sharp, Arnold Bennett and Harold Monro (poet). Cultural Depictions Actress Virginia McKenna portrayed Daisy Greville in the 1972-1973 miniseries The Edwardians. Carolyn Seymour portrayed Greville in the 1975 miniseries Edward the Seventh. References Bibliography Anand, Sushila (2008), Daisy: The Life and Loves of the Countess of Warwick, Piatkus. Lang, Theo. (1966). My Darling Daisy. London: Michael Joseph Blunden, Margaret. (1967). The Countess of Warwick. London: Cassell & Co Warwick, Frances, Countess of. (1929). Life's Ebb and Flow. New York: William Morrow & Company Warwick, Frances, Countess of. (1931). Discretions. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons External links A Countess and her Castle: Warwick Castle in 1900 A life in contrast: Daisy, Countess of Warwick By Daisy's biographer Victoria Fishburn Warwick, Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, Daisy Greville, Countess of British socialites Mistresses of Edward VII Warwick, Daisy Greville, Countess of Social Democratic Federation members Women of the Victorian era British philanthropists