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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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politics | Amabel Williams-Ellis | |
Leisure and Society | Mary Webb | In London, MW
joined the Tomorrow Club
, then its successor PEN
, and the Bookman Circle
. Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth. 220 |
politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | The organisation was set up in 1935, at the end of the First International Congress of Writers
held in the Salle de la Mutualité in Paris. It proposed to be a more partisan and... |
politics | Josephine Tey | |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Taylor | ET
wrote that she liked routine and was always disconcerted when I am asked for my life story, for nothing sensational, thank heavens, has ever happened. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 139 |
Leisure and Society | Noel Streatfeild | NS
was elected a member of P.E.N. Club
(later PEN International
), which had been founded a decade earlier to help and support writers. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Noel Streatfeild | On the outbreak of the Second World War, NS
joined the Women's Voluntary Service
and worked running a mobile canteen service which delivered food to air-raid shelters in South London (Bermondsey and Deptford). She had... |
Occupation | Anne Stevenson | In England the winter before her first marriage AS
taught at a girls' school, and after the marriage she worked in Soho, London, masquerading . . . as a publisher's advertising manager. Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research. 9: 281 |
politics | Stevie Smith | According to Spalding, SS
's politics are hard to pin down. Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber. 135 Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber. 136 |
Occupation | Gillian Slovo | GS
served for three years as president of English PEN
. One month before her term was due to expire she resigned her presidency in order to draw attention to what she said was an... |
Reception | Gillian Slovo | |
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 |
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... |
Literary responses | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | CADS
's novels and poems established a solid reputation for her as a woman of letters in the early 1910s. By 1929, however, her works were no longer read much: she commented (in response to... |
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. 47 |
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