PEN

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Occupation Penelope Fitzgerald
As an established author, albeit well past most people's retirement age, PF lectured and read her work at festivals and other venues, served on the Arts Council 's literature panel, and was a member of...
Occupation Antonia Fraser
AF 's public work continued after her second marriage. She chaired the Crime Writers' Association , and became in 1984 a founding trustee of the Authors' Foundation . When she retired as a trustee she...
Occupation Lady Cynthia Asquith
Meanwhile she prepared to receive evacuees from London, and volunteered for first aid work, nursing, and night shifts with the ARP (Air Raid Precaution) .
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987.
311
After the war she became a member both of...
Occupation Storm Jameson
The Home Office appointed the English Centre of PEN to report on the status of refugee writers who had been or could be interned. SJ and Hermon Ould undertook the bulk of this advisory work.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970.
497
politics Storm Jameson
SJ remained highly politically engaged as World War II ended. After stepping down as President of PEN 's English Centre, she sat on the executive board of PEN International.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research, 1985.
36: 72
She protested against the...
politics Stevie Smith
According to Spalding, SS 's politics are hard to pin down.
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber, 1988.
135
She felt uncomfortable in any group alliance;
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber, 1988.
136
the activism of Naomi Mitchison or Vera Brittain seemed to her simple-minded. Nevertheless, she...
politics Lettice Cooper
LC was president of International PEN , having already served first on the executive committee and then as chair of English PEN .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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, 1968.
152
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, 1973.
133
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, 1996.
459
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, 1997.
173
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 Amabel Williams-Ellis
In terms of later politics, AWE was a longtime member of PEN , and followed scientific, political, and economic developments with interest. She concerned herself with atomic weaponry, increased understanding of animal behaviour, the bombing...
politics Storm Jameson
SJ became president of the English Centre of PEN International . She held this position through the Second World War, until 1945.
The international body had first met in New York on 13 May 1924...
politics Storm Jameson
SJ began an extended tour of Prague, Vienna, and Budapest in her capacity as president of the English Centre of PEN International .
Labon, Joanna. “Tracing Storm Jameson”. Women: A Cultural Review, Vol.
8
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 33-47.
41
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970.
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