 The women's column was written initially by Eleanor Keeling Edwards and, from October 1895, as the women's letters page by Julia Dawson, pen name of Mrs Myddleton-Worrall.It was Julia Dawson who pioneered the "Clarion" Vans, which toured small towns and villages throughout England and Scotland from 1896 until 1929, spreading socialist propaganda.A large number of associated clubs and societies (cycling, rambling, handicrafts, field, drama and Cinderella clubs, as well as "vocal unions" or choral societies) connected with the paper were created, of which the National Clarion Cycling Club still survives, as does the People's Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, which began its life in 1911 as the Newcastle Clarion Drama Club.