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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/. |
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 | 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... |
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 | Elizabeth Bowen | |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
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