PEN

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 .

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

The organisation was set up in 1935, at the end of the First International Congress of Writers held in the Salle de la Mutualité in Paris. It proposed to be a more partisan and...

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.

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...