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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Ali Smith
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. However, her feminist, progressive, and self-identified socialist politics have a fairly significant presence in her work: much of her writing deals in contemporary issues like anti-immigrant racism, homophobia, corporate greed, and climate change. For instance, her apprehension of
's rise in early 2015 presciently noted that there is an engagement point for the whole of the UK about this, around what United Kingdom means, what united means. She expressed sympathy with the migrants seeking better lives in the UK, in a piece for The Guardian in 2015 on the condition of detainees in Britain (part of the Refugee Tales project, http://refugeetales.org, of which Smith is a patron). In a speech she delivered as the 2015
H. G. Wells lecture on
's movement towards a progressive discourse on human rights (also printed in The Guardian) she focused on the threat posed by then Prime Minister
's proposal to scrap the existing Human Rights Act in favour of a British bill of rights. Of this Smith wrote: the government keeps calling it
's Human Rights Act. It's not. . . . It is ours and belongs to all of us. They want to replace it with a British bill of rights—as if all nationalities are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Stevie Smith
According to Spalding,
's politics are hard to pin down. She felt uncomfortable in any group alliance; the activism of Naomi Mitchison or Vera Brittain seemed to her simple-minded. Nevertheless, she opposed Fascism and occasionally attended
meetings (the writers' organization in support of freedom of conscience), although lack of affluence prevented her from joining. In 1938 she joined
, a group aligned against the appeasement policy of
.
Anne Stevenson
In England the winter before her first marriage
taught at a girls' school, and after the marriage she worked in Soho, London, masquerading . . . as a publisher's advertising manager. She also did unpaid typing for the
, but found her skills were not up to even this undemanding work.
Elizabeth Taylor
wrote that she liked routine and was always disconcerted when I am asked for my life story, for nothing sensational, thank heavens, has ever happened. She had a passion for modern painting, and also enjoyed horse-racing. She belonged to
and the
, and attended a
meeting chaired by
to hear
deliver a talk on the novel. She and her husband used to to go separate pubs in the evening, because she liked to sit silent listening to other people's conversation.
Josephine Tey
did not self-identify as a feminist, though she was aware of having benefited from education in institutions which valued women as highly as men. She gave money to Scottish
, but her involvement went no further than that. She kept away from the nascent
.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
The organisation was set up in 1935, at the end of the
held in the Salle de la Mutualité in Paris. It proposed to be a more partisan and effectual international force than (the Society of Poets, Essayists and Novelists), which was established in 1921 and to which
already belonged. The British section of the IAWDC was called the
. The Central Bureau of the IAWDC linked the thirty-eight participating countries, and was headed by internationally respected writers such as
,
, and
.
Mary Webb
In London,
joined the
, then its successor
, and the
.
Augusta Webster
Both
and her husband were members of the
.
Amabel Williams-Ellis
In terms of later politics,
was a longtime member of
, and followed scientific, political, and economic developments with interest. She concerned herself with atomic weaponry, increased understanding of animal behaviour, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Nuremberg trials, and the 1980s recession. In 1983, she described herself as a believer in Women's Lib (even if a mildish one).
E. H. Young
Before the First World War
was a keen climber or mountaineer. During the war she worked in a munitions factory after some time as a groom. She joined the
during the 1920s, and also became a member of
.
September 1949
PEN International held a conference in Venice....
held a conference in Venice. Delegates included
,
,
, and
.
1991
At the International PEN Congress in Vienna,...
At the
Congress in Vienna, a majority of the delegates voted for the establishment of a
.
5 October 1921
The P.E.N. Club (later PEN International),...
The
(later
), a world association of authors, was founded in London by writers
and
.
4 October 1928
The Young PEN Club, designed for beginning...
The
, designed for beginning writers, held its inaugural meeting, chaired by
; also present were
and the young
.
21 May 2013
Sotheby's held an auction of fifty contemporary...
held an auction of fifty contemporary first editions annotated for the purpose of this sale by their authors. A total of £439,200 was raised for
, of which £150,000 (the highest price) came from
's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
1994
Paula Giddings, Ninotchka Rosca and Meredith...
,
and
, all members of the
, formed the Women's World Organization for Rights, Literature, and Development , or Women's WORLD.
Before August 2005
A magazine entitled Zanan (Women) reported...
All this ceased with the election on 5 August of President
. In June 2007 the
reported widespread censorship of women writers and publishers, even arrests and draconian punishments.
1864
Unitarian and feminist Mentia Taylor formed...
Unitarian and feminist
formed in London the
to foster literary and artistic exchange.