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Reception Ruth Padel
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.
Padel, Ruth. Angel. Bloodaxe.
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A poem from this volume was anthologized...
Publishing Margaret Atwood
It was also issued in a limited, boxed edition (150 copies) with Atwood's own artwork, for the benefit of PEN International .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Smith, Caitlin. PEN Canada Members’ Bulletin.
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...
politics Evelyn Sharp
Both kept up their political activity during the 1930s with active membership of such organizations as the National Council for Civil Liberties (whose first executive committee Sharp sat on) and of PEN International . Even...
politics Margaret Atwood
MA has taken an increasingly prominent role in shaping opinion on urgent questions confronting Canadians and others living with the new global economy. In articles, lectures, and interviews she has examined environmental issues, nationalism, governance...
politics Harold Pinter
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...
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.
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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 Storm Jameson
Jameson described the 1933 Labour Conference at Hastings as haunted by the ghost of German Social Democracy, in the shape usually of a young doctor or lawyer, with a pale intelligent face, and no money...
politics Ali Smith
AS largely avoids intervening with her authorial presence in her writing, and argues that there is no clear point of intersection between her work and her allegiances or identities, national, sexual, and so on.
Gonda, Caroline. “An Other Country? Mapping Scottish/Lesbian/Writing”. Gendering the Nation: Studies in Modern Scottish Literature, edited by Christopher Whyte, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-24.
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politics Pat Barker
PB is a member of the Society of Authors and of PEN .
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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politics Judith Kazantzis
JK joined the women's movement as soon as she read about it, and was active in London during the 1970s as a member of the first Women's Liberation Workshop , the Labour Party , and...
politics Gladys Henrietta Schütze
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
politics Joanna Cannan
JC belonged to the English Centre of International PEN , the worldwide association of writers.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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politics Marghanita Laski
ML belonged to the Women's Press Club of London and to PEN .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

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