Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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death | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | Tributes to the founder of PEN
poured in from writers and friends such as Louis Golding
, Rebecca West
, and Karel Capek
. Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth. 203-5 |
Occupation | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | CADS
founded the Tomorrow Club
in London to mentor new writers; it became the germ of PEN
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Occupation | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | The first PEN
dinner was held at the Florence Restaurant in Piccadilly, marking the transformation of the Tomorrow Club
into another organization for writers; CADS
was founder or co-founder of each. Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth. 96 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Occupation | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | As the founder of PEN
, CADS
spoke at the first PEN International
Conference in New York City. Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth. 118 |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | Both kept up their political activity during the 1930s with active membership of such organizations as the National Council for Civil Liberties
(whose first executive committee Sharp sat on) and of PEN International
. Even... |
politics | May Sinclair | MS
attended the founding meeting in Soho of the P.E.N. Club
, which became the well-known and influential writers' organization PEN
International. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 133 |
Travel | May Sinclair | |
politics | Ali Smith | AS
largely avoids intervening with her authorial presence in her writing, and argues that there is no clear point of intersection between her work and her allegiances or identities, national, sexual, and so on. Gonda, Caroline. “An Other Country? Mapping Scottish/Lesbian/Writing”. Gendering the Nation: Studies in Modern Scottish Literature, edited by Christopher Whyte, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-24. 5 |
Reception | Muriel Spark | MS
received many honours, including being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1963, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
in 1978, an Officier de l'Ordre des... |
Leisure and Society | Noel Streatfeild | NS
was elected a member of P.E.N. Club
(later PEN International
), which had been founded a decade earlier to help and support writers. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | E. H. Young | Before the First World War EHY
was a keen climber or mountaineer. During the war she worked in a munitions factory after some time as a groom. She joined the Society of Authors
during the... |
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