PEN International

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...

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

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

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...

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...

After travelling the Middle East, CM spent an unsettled, in-between year divided between London and Paris, with frequent crossings between Newhaven and Dieppe. In June 1949 she attended a Decade or conference on...

While in Palestine in 1947-8 CM was working as a correspondent for Paris Presse and L'Aube. She was Middle East correspondent for both these papers during the next couple of years. She and Clare Hollingworth

Living in Oxford, PL became an aficionado of local churches, visiting them and studying their features with the help of the guidebooks of Nikolaus Pevsner . She also became a member of PEN International

The following year she won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, which The Author called the best and most worthy of all literary prizes, and the year after that the Golden PEN Award for...