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Anthologization | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
also contributed to a collection issued by the Royal Society of Literature
in 1931: Essays by Divers Hands (edited by Sir Francis Younghusband
). She wrote the forewords to |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | Pym apparently accused herself of nervousness in meeting Bowen, which had caused her to talk rather too much about herself! EB discusses methods of working . . . She is very kind and obviously feels... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | Remarkably too, the print-run made a deliberate switch midway in the order of its two stories—of a fifteenth-century Italian painter and of a modern British teenager—and copies were randomized for distribution, so buyers do not... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Taylor | ET
wrote that she liked routine and was always disconcerted when I am asked for my life story, for nothing sensational, thank heavens, has ever happened. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 139 |
Literary responses | Lucille Iremonger | In England she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Occupation | John Strange Winter | She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
, and a member of the Society of Authors
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | George Meredith | GM
received several honours for his literary achievements, including the Order of Merit from Edward VII
and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature
. In 1892 he succeeded Tennyson
as president of... |
Occupation | Maggie Gee | MG
has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex
, the University of East Anglia
, |
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... |
Author summary | Marie Corelli | MC
was one of the first authors of the modern best seller. She published thirty-one popular novels, including one, published posthumously, which fictionalizes events from her own life. She also wrote short stories (collected... |
Publishing | Queen Elizabeth I | The manuscript of QEI
's early translation from Marguerite de Navarre
was reproduced in facsimile as The Mirror of the Sinful Soul, edited by Percy W. Ames
for the Royal Society of Literature
. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Reception | Elizabeth Bowen | The distinguished status of Companion of Literature was conferred on EB
by the Royal Society of Literature
. Austin, Allan E. Elizabeth Bowen. Twayne, 1989. chronology Bowen, Elizabeth. The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 9 feb. 1981. prelims |
Reception | Antonia Fraser | AF
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
and has won the Wolfson History Prize and the Prix Caumont La Force. Several universities have awarded her honorary degrees, beginning with Hull University
in... |
Reception | Brigid Brophy | BB
was awarded the London Magazine prize for prose in 1962 and the Tony Godwin Award in 1985. Brophy, Brigid. The King of a Rainy Country. Virago, 1990. prelims Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press, 1996. 155 |
Reception | John Strange Winter | In 1893 JSW
became the first woman to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bainbridge, Oliver, and Alfred Edward Turner. John Strange Winter: A Volume of Personal Record. East and West, 1916. 95-6 |
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