PEN

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...

EB was involved in a PEN conference which discussed the issue of help for writers in Axis countries (including contries recently occupied).

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...

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 .

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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 .

EB resigned from PEN , because after reflection, she no longer [felt] in sympathy with their aims—presumably an allusion to PEN's strong anti-Fascist position.

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...

JT did not self-identify as a feminist, though she was aware of having benefited from education in institutions which valued women as highly as men. She gave money to Scottish PEN , but her involvement...