PEN

At about the same time, when the public library service was suffering cuts (especially to smaller branches), she was a key figure in a popular campaign in Camden which succeeded in getting their particular local...

In 1939, EF became a member of the executive committee of the PEN Club . She remained on the committee for ten years, during which its chief work was helping with the escape and establishment...

KN served as president of the Progressive League . In 1974 she became president for a year of the English branch of PEN International , whose quarterly magazine (titled from its parent organization, in varying...

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...

With the support of Violet Hunt and May Sinclair , RH was elected a member of the writers' organisation PEN .

MS attended the founding meeting in Soho of the P.E.N. Club , which became the well-known and influential writers' organization PEN International.

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...

According to Spalding, SS 's politics are hard to pin down. She felt uncomfortable in any group alliance; the activism of Naomi Mitchison or Vera Brittain seemed to her simple-minded. Nevertheless, she...

SJ became president of the English Centre of PEN International . She held this position through the Second World War, until 1945.

EB resigned from PEN , because after reflection, she no longer [felt] in sympathy with their aims—presumably an allusion to PEN's strong anti-Fascist position.

SJ began an extended tour of Prague, Vienna, and Budapest in her capacity as president of the English Centre of PEN International .

JT did not self-identify as a feminist, though she was aware of having benefited from education in institutions which valued women as highly as men. She gave money to Scottish PEN , but her involvement...

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. She protested against the...

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...

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...