Bureaucracy across Borders: Administering Cosmopolitan Hospitality at the English P.E.N., 1930–1945

• Published in: Modernist cultures Vol. 16; no. 3; p. 367
• Main Author: Ridge, Emily
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 01.08.2021
• Subjects: 20th century; Associations; Borders; Bureaucracy; Etiquette; Kindness; Literature; Lunches; Political parties; Refuge; Refugees

From its inception, hospitality was inscribed in the vision of the English P.E.N., one of its stipulated aims being to provide a ‘vehicle for friendliness and hospitality’. Yet several writers who took leading administrative and representational roles during the 1930s and 1940s – Storm Jameson, E. M...