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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. 311 |
politics | Enid Bagnold | |
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. |
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... |
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 | 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... |
politics | Lettice Cooper | LC
was president of International PEN
, having already served first on the executive committee and then as chair of English PEN
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
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... |
politics | Buchi Emecheta | |
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... |
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 |
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