PEN

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...

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...

Meanwhile she prepared to receive evacuees from London, and volunteered for first aid work, nursing, and night shifts with the ARP (Air Raid Precaution) . After the war she became a member both of...

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.

SJ remained highly politically engaged as World War II ended. After stepping down as President of PEN 's English Centre, she sat on the executive board of PEN International. She protested against the...

According to Spalding, SS 's politics are hard to pin down. She felt uncomfortable in any group alliance; the activism of Naomi Mitchison or Vera Brittain seemed to her simple-minded. Nevertheless, she...

LC was president of International PEN , having already served first on the executive committee and then as chair of English PEN .

Willa and Edwin Muir represented the Scottish division of PEN at the International Congress of PEN in Budapest.

MS attended the founding meeting in Soho of the P.E.N. Club , which became the well-known and influential writers' organization PEN International.

BE became a member of PEN , the organization devoted to supporting writers who are persecuted for political or ideological reasons.

With the support of Violet Hunt and May Sinclair , RH was elected a member of the writers' organisation PEN .

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...

In terms of later politics, AWE was a longtime member of PEN , and followed scientific, political, and economic developments with interest. She concerned herself with atomic weaponry, increased understanding of animal behaviour, the bombing...

SJ became president of the English Centre of PEN International . She held this position through the Second World War, until 1945.

SJ began an extended tour of Prague, Vienna, and Budapest in her capacity as president of the English Centre of PEN International .