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Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
was first a poet; then after a long break in her publishing career she produced almost twenty novels, including works that make her a significant regional novelist of the Cornish coast. She also wrote plays, a travel book, short stories, and books about the occult and her psychic experiences. Both her poetry and fiction express her feminist conviction of the necessity of women's sexual, personal, and financial freedom. Her work was progressive for its era, tackling taboo subjects such as domestic violence, adultery, and premarital sex. She achieved critical commendation, but never a particularly wide readership, and is chiefly remembered today for having founded the literary organization
.
Storm Jameson
Jameson described the 1933
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. What did these revenants hope from their assembled English comrades? Jameson began to associate with refugees in London from about this year forward. Though she later undertook more formal, concerted refugee work with
, she now hosted some of the first exiles from
's Germany.
Gladys Henrietta Schütze
On her first attendance at
, taken there by an American friend,
, she met
(whom she took to at once),
(whose work she much admired),
,
, and
.
Margaret Atwood
Later, in 1982-3,
was President of the
. She was President of the Canadian branch of
in 1984-6. She became a Vice-President of Pen International on 11 July 2007, joining other such distinguished writers as
and
.
Patricia Beer
According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, reviewers liked this book, praising its vivid and forceful use of language.
, however, later remembered that it brought the killer bees out in force, led . . . by
. The book was a
choice, and had effects useful to her career. A few years later she was asked to co-edit, with
and
, the 1962
anthology, and it probably helped her get her lecturing position at
.
John Galsworthy
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 its story begins forty years before the first in the series appeared. In 1921
became first president of the
(later
) founded by
and
, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922.
Mary Renault
The inaugural meeting was held of the Cape Town branch of
, which
had helped to found.
Lettice Cooper
was president of International
, having already served first on the executive committee and then as chair of
.
Nawal El Saadawi
She visited London in April 2009, and went on to New York the following month in connection with a conference of
. She was in London again in April 2010 and in late 2015; in 2012 she was in Dubai.
Antonia Fraser
's public work continued after her second marriage. She chaired the
, and became in 1984 a founding trustee of the
. When she retired as a trustee she set up a six-monthly Authors' Foundation grant of £3,000 to go to a writer working in women's biography. She was successively vice president and president of the English branch of
at the particularly difficult historical moment when the fatwah was declared against novelist
.
, she observed in June 1989, survives despite being inherently liable to a split between those dissident writers who are more and those who are less willing to communicate with the non-dissidents whom they regard as collaborators.
Judith Kazantzis
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
, the
, and the
. As a member of
she edited its broadsheet, The Pen, during the 1980s. She broke, painfully, with the Labour Party in 1999.
Rosamond Lehmann
was an International Vice-President of
, a Vice-President of the
, and a member of the Council of the
.
Cecily Mackworth
After travelling the Middle East,
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 The Preservation of Literature at the Abbaye de Royaumont, near Chantilly in France, and though she did not appreciate all of the literary argument, she thought that the ambience of the place was bliss. Another conference she attended was that of
in Venice in September 1949, for which she earned the money by some casual jobs in film. She saw the conference as belonging to a vanished era of respect and status for the author, but she took full advantage of the place: when the speeches start, I slip away and wander in this extraordinary floating city.
Ruth Padel
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
and the first poet in residence for the
. She calls herself a musician, and has presented many
radio programmes on composers and scientists as well as on poetry and writers. She belongs to
, the
, the
, and the
, and is a trustee of the
and of
Harold Pinter
and
, visiting Turkey for
to protest against mistreatment of intellectuals, were proscribed by the military regime for giving a press conference.
May Sinclair
attended the founding meeting in Soho of the
, which became the well-known and influential writers' organization
International.
Gillian Slovo
served for three years as president of
. One month before her term was due to expire she resigned her presidency in order to draw attention to what she said was an issue of democratic accountability in the governance of this revered institution. In Slovo's words, a decision was taken by a majority on the board, and a minority worked in a way that stopped it being carried out.
is a Patron of the
, which offers post-graduate scholarships for students from southern Africa at
.
Muriel Spark
Spark's interest in Mary Shelley had first been aroused by reading Ariel, André Maurois' life of
. She said later that writing this book against time for economic reasons and at the same time trying to be scrupulously accurate was not easy. Having done most of the writing by night, she borrowed a typewriter for the final draft, which because of the noise she could not use while others slept. The book was published by
(later
), which was no good at marketing and had to remainder 700 copies at the end of two years. The book included as an appendix an abridged text of Shelley's The Last Man, then otherwise unavailable. It was slightly revised and published as Mary Shelley in 1988, minus its introduction and its original flowery chapter headings.
Noel Streatfeild
was elected a member of
(later
), which had been founded a decade earlier to help and support writers.
Lady Cynthia Asquith
Meanwhile she prepared to receive evacuees from London, and volunteered for first aid work, nursing, and night shifts with the
. After the war she became a member both of the
and of the
, and she served during 1946-7 as President of the
, an organisation devoted to controlling cars and drivers. She took up lecturing (proving to be a good public speaker) and appeared on the
's Brains Trust programme—always recorded, not live.
Enid Bagnold
resigned from
, because after reflection, she no longer [felt] in sympathy with their aims—presumably an allusion to PEN's strong anti-Fascist position.
Pat Barker
is a member of the
and of
.
Nina Bawden
sat on various literary committees:
, the
, and the
. She was president of the
, following in the footsteps of
. She served as a judge for the Booker Prize for fiction, and she played what she called a modest part in the campaign for Public Lending Right.
remembered years afterwards that as a Booker judge
(with the actress
) had strongly opposed the award of the prize to
's The Bone Peopleon the grounds of its violence. Bawden later publicly dissociated herself from the judges' majority decision.
Sybille Bedford
belonged to the
and to
(of which she was vice-president for the year 1979).
Frances Bellerby
She attended seriously to becoming a writer, and with this in view attended the inaugural meeting of the
on 4 October 1928, where she was introduced to
.