PEN International

Hers was a prosperous middle-class, Methodist family, with an Irish background on her mother's side. The speaker of Rukhmabai in Idylls of Womanhood depicts herself as a maid / Whose Irish blood must send her...

Tributes to the founder of PEN poured in from writers and friends such as Louis Golding , Rebecca West , and Karel Capek .

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

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 . She also became a member of PEN International

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.

British Book News was as grudging about the 1975 PEN poetry anthology as it was the same year (1976) about Driving West. It reported that this series plods on with safe, unexciting choices, though...

During her break from The Mirror in DarknessSJ devoted herself to political activism with PEN International and other organizations. But she reserved some time for further creative writing, including three texts linked to her...

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...

NB sat on various literary committees: PEN International , the Society of Authors , and the Royal Society of Literature . She was president of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists , following in...

As a writer she was an assiduous attender of literary festivals, a virtuoso reader of her own and other authors' work. She tells a story from her whoring or book-promotion days of sitting beside Edna O'Brien

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

CADS founded the Tomorrow Club in London to mentor new writers; it became the germ of PEN .

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.

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...

As the founder of PEN , CADS spoke at the first PEN International Conference in New York City.