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Occupation | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | FWN
was appointed at age 24 to the chair of classical philology at Basel University
. He is unique among German philosophers for having become nearly a household word outside the academic world, thanks in... |
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... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | In 1929 and again in 1930 she was a member of the British Delegation to the League of Nations
Assembly in Geneva (one of two women delegates sent by Britain), where her most exciting assignment... |
Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
's committee raised three hundred thousand pounds to fund the children's transport. Having begun with Spanish refugees, she became over the next few years deeply involved in the cause of refugees from Czecholovakia... |
Occupation | Nancy Cunard | NC
worked as a translator in London for the Free French
, the French government-in-exile during the rule of Marshall Pétain
's Nazi
-compliant Vichy government in France. Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf. 265, 272 |
Occupation | Helen Waddell | |
politics | Maude Royden | |
politics | Willa Muir | Their brief was in particular to assert the independence of the Scottish branch of PEN from the English branch. Having spent a good deal of time in Europe without paying close attention to the political... |
politics | Bernice Rubens | |
politics | Rosita Forbes | RF
had been patriotically outraged at the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 (which was presented as saving the country from British imperialism). Forbes, Rosita. Appointment with Destiny. Cassell. 12 |
politics | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter
has written that SB
's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and... |
politics | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | During World War One GHS
became and remained a fully convinced pacifist, as did her husband. Years later, with Nazi
Germany re-arming, she reluctantly ceased to be a pacifist. She resigned, painfully, from Dick Sheppard |
politics | Barbara Pym | It appears that at this date BP
admired (as did so many German women of analogous background) the ritual, the pageantry, perhaps the swaggering masculinity connected with National Socialism
. Some of her English friends... |
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 |
politics | Samuel Beckett |
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