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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Phyllis Bentley | PB
became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. She was awarded an OBE in 1970. Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research. 129 |
| Reception | Marina Warner | |
| Reception | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
was created a CBE for her services to literature; five years later she was elected a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature
. Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press. 19 Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus. biographical note |
| Reception | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | |
| Reception | Sylvia Townsend Warner | She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
, and in June 1977 the Aldeburgh Festival honoured her with a special programme of her work. As if to reinforce the parallel sometimes... |
| Reception | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
's poetry was broadcast on the BBC
's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1987, a CBE in... |
| Reception | Deborah Levy | DL
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. She says she is proud of the way I have walked women into the centre of my fictions and plays and let them be... |
| Reception | Bernice Rubens | BR
was made a Fellow of the University of Wales at Cardiff
in 1982, received an Honorary DLitt from the same institution in 1991, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in... |
| Reception | Malorie Blackman | In 2005 MB
received the Eleanor Farjeon Award from the British Children's Book Circle
for her body of work (then extending over fifteen years). The same year she was awarded the OBE and in 2009... |
| Reception | Antonia White | By 1960 AW
was forgotten, as she indicates in a bitterly funny diary passage about a Society of Authors
party at which she was repeatedly mistaken for somebody else, and awakened no interest at all... |
| Reception | Elaine Feinstein | EF
became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1980. In 1990 she won the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry and was given an Honorary DLitt by the University of Leicester
. Falconer, Helen. “Saturday Review: Family Affairs”. The Guardian, p. 10. 10 Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Feinstein, Elaine. Selected Poems. Carcanet. back cover |
| Reception | Penelope Lively | PL
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
and a former Chair of the Society of Authors
. Lively, Penelope. The Five Thousand and One Nights. Fjord Press. 149 |
| Reception | Carol Rumens | CR
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 40 |
| 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. chronology Bowen, Elizabeth. The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 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... |
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