PEN International

JG was active in progressive social and political causes such as prison reform, and served as first president of the P. E. N. Club (later PEN International).

He was too ill to travel to Stockholm to accept the award (he died the following month). He signed over the prize money to PEN International , an organisation over which he had presided since...

In 1951 she took a job with the Red Cross , working as a travelling librarian visiting and servicing hospital libraries. She then moved into journalism, becoming a sub-editor on Weldon Ladies Journal in 1952...

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...

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...

During her break from The Mirror in DarknessSJ devoted herself to political activism with PEN International and other organizations. But she reserved some time for further creative writing, including three texts linked to her...

In September 1949, before her second marriage, PHJ was in Venice for a conference of PEN International . Cecily Mackworth mentions her nervousness when at an official banquet she was seated next to the head...

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...

After this beginning to a feminist writing career, JK joined the Women's Literature Collective and began reviewing poetry for Spare Rib (where she also published her own poems) and other radical journals. During the 1980s...

ML belonged to the Women's Press Club of London and to PEN .

She had already put in four years as president of the English Centre of PEN International and had chaired its Writers in Prison Committee .

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...

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

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