Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth, 1978.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Leisure and Society | Mary Webb | In London, MW
joined the Tomorrow Club
, then its successor PEN
, and the Bookman Circle
. Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth, 1978. 220 |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Taylor | ET
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. qtd. in “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 139 |
Leisure and Society | Sybille Bedford | SB
belonged to the Society of Authors
and to PEN
(of which she was vice-president for the year 1979). “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Leisure and Society | Noel Streatfeild | NS
was elected a member of P.E.N. Club
(later PEN International
), which had been founded a decade earlier to help and support writers. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | CADS
's novels and poems established a solid reputation for her as a woman of letters in the early 1910s. By 1929, however, her works were no longer read much: she commented (in response to... |
Occupation | Noel Streatfeild | On the outbreak of the Second World War, NS
joined the Women's Voluntary Service
and worked running a mobile canteen service which delivered food to air-raid shelters in South London (Bermondsey and Deptford). She had... |
Occupation | Phyllis Bentley | In the 1950s PB
increased her volunteer community involvement. She firmly believed that small local organizations were a essential part of English civil life: her life's work as a regional novelist was parallelled by a... |
Occupation | Anne Stevenson | In England the winter before her first marriage AS
taught at a girls' school, and after the marriage she worked in Soho, London, masquerading . . . as a publisher's advertising manager. Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research, 1984–2024, Numerous volumes. 9: 281 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Bowen | |
Occupation | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
was an International Vice-President of PEN
, a Vice-President of the College of Psychic Studies
, and a member of the Council of the Society of Authors
. Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. 1st ed., St Martin’s Press, 1992. 19 Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus, 1985. biographical note |
Occupation | Ann Bridge | Early in the second world war she worked at an indeterminate job with the Ministry of Information
, commissioning articles on the British war effort and placing them in US periodicals: the placing had to... |
Occupation | Gillian Slovo | GS
served for three years as president of English PEN
. One month before her term was due to expire she resigned her presidency in order to draw attention to what she said was an... |
Occupation | Deborah Moggach | At about the same time, when the public library service was suffering cuts (especially to smaller branches), she was a key figure in a popular campaign in Camden which succeeded in getting their particular local... |
Occupation | Kathleen Nott | KN
served as president of the Progressive League
. In 1974 she became president for a year of the English branch of PEN International
, whose quarterly magazine (titled from its parent organization, in varying... |
Occupation | Eleanor Farjeon |
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