British Book News. British Council.
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Textual Production | Storm Jameson | SJ
published a one-act play, Full Circle, with Basil Blackwell
in 1929. In 1950 she published her teleplay William the Defeated in The Book of PEN, edited by Hermon Ould
. She issued... |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | |
Textual Features | Vita Sackville-West | Her first letter to Dear Mrs. Woolf, Sackville-West, Vita. The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Editors DeSalvo, Louise and Mitchell A. Leaska, William Morrow. 47 |
Reception | Patricia Beer | According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, reviewers liked this book, praising its vivid and forceful use of language. PB
, however, later remembered that it brought the killer bees out in force, led... |
Reception | Storm Jameson | SJ
received the English Centre of International PEN
award for her last novel, There Will Be a Short Interval, published the previous year. Her long involvement with this association had included serving as its... |
Reception | Carol Ann Duffy | CAD
was awarded an OBE in 1995. In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was created a CBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end of... |
Reception | Gillian Slovo | |
Author summary | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | CADS
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... |
Author summary | John Galsworthy | JG
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... |
politics | Radclyffe Hall | With the support of Violet Hunt
and May Sinclair
, RH
was elected a member of the writers' organisation PEN
. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray. 173 |
politics | May Sinclair | MS
attended the founding meeting in Soho of the P.E.N. Club
, which became the well-known and influential writers' organization PEN
International. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 133 |
politics | Violet Hunt | During the summer and autumn of 1921, VH
helped her friend and colleague C. A. Sappho Dawson Scott
with the establishment of the P.E.N. Club
(later PEN International
), originally a writers' association designed to... |
politics | Stevie Smith | According to Spalding, SS
's politics are hard to pin down. Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber. 135 Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber. 136 |
politics | Storm Jameson | SJ
became president of the English Centre of PEN International
. She held this position through the Second World War, until 1945. The international body had first met in New York on 13 May 1924... |
politics | Enid Bagnold |
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