Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
PEN
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. |
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 | 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. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 139 |
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 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | |
Occupation | Penelope Fitzgerald | As an established author, albeit well past most people's retirement age, PF
lectured and read her work at festivals and other venues, served on the Arts Council
's literature panel, and was a member of... |
Occupation | Antonia Fraser | AF
's public work continued after her second marriage. She chaired the Crime Writers' Association
, and became in 1984 a founding trustee of the Authors' Foundation
. When she retired as a trustee she... |
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. 9: 281 |
Occupation | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Meanwhile she prepared to receive evacuees from London, and volunteered for first aid work, nursing, and night shifts with the ARP (Air Raid Precaution)
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 311 |
Occupation | Storm Jameson | The Home Office
appointed the English Centre of PEN
to report on the status of refugee writers who had been or could be interned. SJ
and Hermon Ould
undertook the bulk of this advisory work. Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970. 497 |
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... |
Timeline
5 October 1921
The P.E.N. Club
(later PEN International
), a world association of authors, was founded in London by writers C. A. Dawson Scott
and Violet Hunt
.
September 1949
PEN International
held a conference in Venice. Delegates included W. H. Auden
, C. P. Snow
, Pamela Hansford Johnson
, and Cecily Mackworth
.
21 May 2013
Sotheby's
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 English PEN
, of which £150,000 (the highest price)...