Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds.
219, 221, 223
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | On her first attendance at PEN
, taken there by an American friend, Sarah MacConnell
, she met Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
(whom she took to at once), Galsworthy
(whose work she much admired), Roma Wilson |
Travel | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
later attended PEN
conferences at Barcelona and Paris, in Hungary and in Poland. At Barcelona she was a joint delegate with E. M. Delafield
. Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds. 219, 221, 223 |
Occupation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Having, as a member from its early years of the P. E. N. Club
(later PEN International), supported writers persecuted for their opinions, GHS
began in the 1930s to work for refugees from Nazi
Germany... |
politics | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | During Storm Jameson
's presidency of the English branch of PEN International
(which began early in 1938) the Schützes lent Glebe House for a two-day sale raising funds for refugees from the Nazis
. GHS |
Textual Production | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | The phrase Harlequin Set describes a dinner-service composed of plates of different patterns. GHS
explains how she and her husband had collected decorative plates, one by one, from many countries on their holidays, which they... |
Travel | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
and her husband
travelled to New York to help represent PEN International
at the World's Fair there, the largest ever held. Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds. 242 |
Occupation | Bernice Rubens | As a writer she was an assiduous attender of literary festivals, a virtuoso reader of her own and other authors' work. Kennedy, Maev. “Booker winner Bernice Rubens dies”. Guardian Unlimited. |
Travel | Harold Pinter | HP
and Arthur Miller
, visiting Turkey for PEN International
to protest against mistreatment of intellectuals, were proscribed by the military regime for giving a press conference. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 149-50 |
politics | Harold Pinter | As to international politics, Pinter spoke out against the forcible, USA-backed ousting of President Salvador Allende
of Chile in September 1973. Like his second wife, he was a strong supporter of PEN International
. The... |
Occupation | Ruth Padel | In 2007 she sat on the panel judging the Eric Gregory awards for new writing. In 2008 she became the first writer in residence at Somerset House
and the first poet in residence for the... |
Reception | Ruth Padel | The Times Literary Supplement praised this volume's poignant sense of history.Sarah Maguire
in The Listener added the insight that this was history problematised, not finished. Padel, Ruth. Angel. Bloodaxe. back cover |
Travel | Cecily Mackworth | After travelling the Middle East, CM
spent an unsettled, in-between year divided between London and Paris, with frequent crossings between Newhaven and Dieppe. Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet. 109 |
Occupation | Cecily Mackworth | While in Palestine in 1947-8 CM
was working as a correspondent for Paris Presse and L'Aube. She was Middle East correspondent for both these papers during the next couple of years. She and Clare Hollingworth |
Leisure and Society | Penelope Lively | Living in Oxford, PL
became an aficionado of local churches, visiting them and studying their features with the help of the guidebooks of Nikolaus Pevsner
. Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Grove Press. 68 |
Reception | Doris Lessing | The following year she won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, which The Author called the best and most worthy of all literary prizes, Parker, Derek. “On the Side”. The Author, Vol. cxii , No. 2, pp. 86-8. 87 |
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