%0 Journal Article
%T Margaret Storm Jameson and the London PEN Centre: Mobilising Commitment
%A Jennifer BIRKETT
%J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone
%D 2006
%I 
%R 10.4000/erea.256
%X Founded in London in October 1921 by Mrs. C. A. Dawson Scott, PEN (¡°Poets, Essayists and Novelists¡±) started life as a literary dining club, on the American model. Its beginnings were explicitly apolitical ¨C refusal to take any particular political stand was one of the founding principles ¨C and politeness was its watchword. John Galsworthy was invited to be first President, in preference to H. G. Wells, partly because he was ¡°big enough to act as a magnet to draw in all the rest,¡± but mostly ...
%U http://erea.revues.org/256