Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth, 1987.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | 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... |
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, 1987. 203-5 |
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 |
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/. |
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, 2001. 68 |
Literary responses | Patricia Beer | 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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Storm Jameson | 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... |
Occupation | Margaret Atwood | Later, in 1982-3, MA
was President of the Writers' Union of Canada
. She was President of the Canadian branch of PEN International
in 1984-6. She became a Vice-President of Pen International on 11 July... |
Occupation | Jane Gardam | In 1951 she took a job with the Red Cross
, working as a travelling librarian visiting and servicing hospital libraries. She then moved into journalism, becoming a sub-editor on Weldon Ladies Journal in 1952... |
Occupation | Rosamond Lehmann | She had already put in four years as president of the English Centre of PEN International
and had chaired its Writers in Prison Committee
. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002. 361 |
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 | Nina Bawden | 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... |
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, 14 Oct. 2004. |
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 |
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 |
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