PEN International

In 2007 she sat on the panel judging the Eric Gregory awards for new writing. In 2008 she became the first writer in residence at Somerset House and the first poet in residence for the...

The Times Literary Supplement praised this volume's poignant sense of history.Sarah Maguire in The Listener added the insight that this was history problematised, not finished. A poem from this volume was anthologized...

HP and Arthur Miller , visiting Turkey for PEN International to protest against mistreatment of intellectuals, were proscribed by the military regime for giving a press conference.

As to international politics, Pinter spoke out against the forcible, USA-backed ousting of President Salvador Allende of Chile in September 1973. Like his second wife, he was a strong supporter of PEN International . The...

As a writer she was an assiduous attender of literary festivals, a virtuoso reader of her own and other authors' work. She tells a story from her whoring or book-promotion days of sitting beside Edna O'Brien

GHS and her husband travelled to New York to help represent PEN International at the World's Fair there, the largest ever held.

On her first attendance at PEN , taken there by an American friend, Sarah MacConnell , she met Catharine Amy Dawson Scott (whom she took to at once), Galsworthy (whose work she much admired), Roma Wilson

GHS later attended PEN conferences at Barcelona and Paris, in Hungary and in Poland. At Barcelona she was a joint delegate with E. M. Delafield .

Having, as a member from its early years of the P. E. N. Club (later PEN International), supported writers persecuted for their opinions, GHS began in the 1930s to work for refugees from Nazi Germany...

During Storm Jameson 's presidency of the English branch of PEN International (which began early in 1938) the Schützes lent Glebe House for a two-day sale raising funds for refugees from the Nazis . GHS

The phrase Harlequin Set describes a dinner-service composed of plates of different patterns. GHS explains how she and her husband had collected decorative plates, one by one, from many countries on their holidays, which they...

Hers was a prosperous middle-class, Methodist family, with an Irish background on her mother's side. The speaker of Rukhmabai in Idylls of Womanhood depicts herself as a maid / Whose Irish blood must send her...

PEN stood for Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Editors, Novelists. Forty-five writers and journalists attended the dinner: they all became PEN's first members. John Galsworthy served as president until 1933.

PEN was inspired by the new post-war spirit of internationalism. CADS explained her vision for PEN: the idea is more to draw the nations together—a United States of Europe and America in literature. ....

After the founding, CADS remained essential to the organization and smooth functioning of PEN . As writers from war-torn Europe poured into London, they often sought her out first to gain an entrée into literary society.