PEN

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Textual Production Storm Jameson
SJ published a one-act play, Full Circle, with Basil Blackwell in 1929. In 1950 she published her teleplay William the Defeated in The Book of PEN, edited by Hermon Ould . She issued...
Textual Production Storm Jameson
Several chapters had begun as addresses given to meetings of the PEN Club while SJ was its president.
British Book News. British Council.
(1950): 838
Textual Features Vita Sackville-West
Her first letter to Dear Mrs. Woolf,
Sackville-West, Vita. The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Editors DeSalvo, Louise and Mitchell A. Leaska, William Morrow.
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written on 26 March 1923, was an invitation to join the PEN club . Sackville-West did not yet know Woolf at all well, since she supposed Woolf...
Reception Carol Ann Duffy
CAD was awarded an OBE in 1995. In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was created a CBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end of...
Reception Gillian Slovo
In late 2013 GS received the coveted Golden PEN award, announced at the same meeting at which she stepped down as president of PEN , one month prematurely, on a matter of principle which conveyed...
Reception Patricia Beer
According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, reviewers liked this book, praising its vivid and forceful use of language. PB , however, later remembered that it brought the killer bees out in force, led...
Reception Storm Jameson
SJ received the English Centre of International PEN award for her last novel, There Will Be a Short Interval, published the previous year. Her long involvement with this association had included serving as its...
Author summary Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
CADS was first a poet; then after a long break in her publishing career she produced almost twenty novels, including works that make her a significant regional novelist of the Cornish coast. She also wrote...
Author summary John Galsworthy
JG was a novelist and dramatist who began publishing just before the end of the nineteenth century. The series of novels for which he is now best known, The Forsyte Saga, is historical, since...
politics Buchi Emecheta
BE became a member of PEN , the organization devoted to supporting writers who are persecuted for political or ideological reasons.
Umeh, Marie, editor. Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Africa World Press.
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politics Willa Muir
Willa and Edwin Muir represented the Scottish division of PEN at the International Congress of PEN in Budapest.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
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politics Radclyffe Hall
With the support of Violet Hunt and May Sinclair , RH was elected a member of the writers' organisation PEN .
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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politics May Sinclair
MS attended the founding meeting in Soho of the P.E.N. Club , which became the well-known and influential writers' organization PEN International.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
133
politics Violet Hunt
During the summer and autumn of 1921, VH helped her friend and colleague C. A. Sappho Dawson Scott with the establishment of the P.E.N. Club (later PEN International ), originally a writers' association designed to...
politics Stevie Smith
According to Spalding, SS 's politics are hard to pin down.
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber.
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She felt uncomfortable in any group alliance;
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber.
136
the activism of Naomi Mitchison or Vera Brittain seemed to her simple-minded. Nevertheless, she...

Timeline

5 October 1921: The P.E.N. Club (later PEN International),...

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5 October 1921

The P.E.N. Club (later PEN International ), a world association of authors, was founded in London by writers C. A. Dawson Scott and Violet Hunt .

September 1949: PEN International held a conference in Venice....

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September 1949

PEN International held a conference in Venice. Delegates included W. H. Auden , C. P. Snow , Pamela Hansford Johnson , and Cecily Mackworth .

21 May 2013: Sotheby's held an auction of fifty contemporary...

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21 May 2013

Sotheby's held an auction of fifty contemporary first editions annotated for the purpose of this sale by their authors. A total of £439,200 was raised for English PEN , of which £150,000 (the highest price)...

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