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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In late 2013 GS received the coveted Golden PEN award, announced at the same meeting at which she stepped down as president of PEN , one month prematurely, on a matter of principle which conveyed...

Her first letter to Dear Mrs. Woolf, written on 26 March 1923, was an invitation to join the PEN club . Sackville-West did not yet know Woolf at all well, since she supposed Woolf...

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...

Several chapters had begun as addresses given to meetings of the PEN Club while SJ was its president.