PEN

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Occupation Gillian Slovo
GS served for three years as president of English PEN . One month before her term was due to expire she resigned her presidency in order to draw attention to what she said was an...
Occupation Kathleen Nott
KN served as president of the Progressive League . In 1974 she became president for a year of the English branch of PEN International , whose quarterly magazine (titled from its parent organization, in varying...
Occupation Eleanor Farjeon
In 1939, EF became a member of the executive committee of the PEN Club . She remained on the committee for ten years, during which its chief work was helping with the escape and establishment...
Occupation Penelope Fitzgerald
As an established author, albeit well past most people's retirement age, PF lectured and read her work at festivals and other venues, served on the Arts Council 's literature panel, and was a member of...
politics Radclyffe Hall
With the support of Violet Hunt and May Sinclair , RH was elected a member of the writers' organisation PEN .
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
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politics Amabel Williams-Ellis
In terms of later politics, AWE was a longtime member of PEN , and followed scientific, political, and economic developments with interest. She concerned herself with atomic weaponry, increased understanding of animal behaviour, the bombing...
politics Violet Hunt
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...
politics Storm Jameson
SJ became president of the English Centre of PEN International . She held this position through the Second World War, until 1945.
The international body had first met in New York on 13 May 1924...
politics Storm Jameson
SJ began an extended tour of Prague, Vienna, and Budapest in her capacity as president of the English Centre of PEN International .
Labon, Joanna. “Tracing Storm Jameson”. Women: A Cultural Review, Vol.
8
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 33-47.
41
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970.
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politics Sylvia Townsend Warner
The organisation was set up in 1935, at the end of the First International Congress of Writers held in the Salle de la Mutualité in Paris. It proposed to be a more partisan and...
politics Enid Bagnold
EB resigned from PEN , because after reflection, she no longer [felt] in sympathy with their aims—presumably an allusion to PEN's strong anti-Fascist position.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
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politics Josephine Tey
JT did not self-identify as a feminist, though she was aware of having benefited from education in institutions which valued women as highly as men. She gave money to Scottish PEN , but her involvement...
politics Storm Jameson
SJ remained highly politically engaged as World War II ended. After stepping down as President of PEN 's English Centre, she sat on the executive board of PEN International.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research, 1985.
36: 72
She protested against the...
politics Stevie Smith
According to Spalding, SS 's politics are hard to pin down.
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber, 1988.
135
She felt uncomfortable in any group alliance;
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber, 1988.
136
the activism of Naomi Mitchison or Vera Brittain seemed to her simple-minded. Nevertheless, she...
politics Lettice Cooper
LC was president of International PEN , having already served first on the executive committee and then as chair of English PEN .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.

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