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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 | Amabel Williams-Ellis | |
politics | Lettice Cooper | LC
was president of International PEN
, having already served first on the executive committee and then as chair of English PEN
. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
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... |
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 | |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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