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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. 50: 12 |
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 | Marghanita Laski | ML
belonged to the Women's Press Club
of London and to PEN
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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. 191 |
politics | Lettice Cooper | LC
was president of International PEN
, having already served first on the executive committee and then as chair of English PEN
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
politics | Anita Desai | She is a member of PEN International
, TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4563 (14 September 1990): 972 |
politics | John Galsworthy | 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). |
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... |
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. |
Reception | John Galsworthy | 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... |
Reception | Muriel Spark | MS
received many honours, including being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1963, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
in 1978, an Officier de l'Ordre des... |
Reception | Doris Lessing | The following year she won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, which The Author called the best and most worthy of all literary prizes, Parker, Derek. “On the Side”. The Author, Vol. cxii , No. 2, pp. 86-8. 87 |
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. back cover |
Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | This book was published as a fundraiser for the PEN International
Writers in Prison Program and the Writers' Development Trust
. |
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