Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin.
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Reception | Anne Sexton | The book was listed as a Poetry Book Society
recommendation and AS
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin. 243 |
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. prelims Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press. 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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bainbridge, Oliver, and Alfred Edward Turner. John Strange Winter: A Volume of Personal Record. East and West. 95-6 |
Reception | Mavis Gallant | Although MG
never attended a post-secondary institution, she was the recipient of at least eight honorary degrees from Canadian universities between 1984 and 1998, in addition to being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature |
Reception | Alice Meynell | |
Reception | Jo Shapcott | JS
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
, and in 1997 she held the position of Penguin Writers Fellow at the British Library
. She was made a CBE (Commander of the... |
Reception | Ivy Compton-Burnett | The Royal Society of Literature
elected her one of its twelve Companions of Literature the following year. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton. 288 The DLB describes this as being recognised as having the dignity of Companion of Literature, the... |
Reception | Jane Gardam | As well as winning prizes or making short-lists for individual titles, JG
has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. She received the Heywood Hill lifetime award for literary achievement in... |
Reception | Hannah More | HM
was selected for membership of the Royal Society of Literature
, but declined on the grounds that this would be improper for a woman. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 265n24 |
Reception | Penelope Mortimer | PM
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. The domestic world of her novels, wrote P. J. Keating
in the Penguin Companion to Literature, hovers continually on the edge of nightmare. Crosland, Margaret. Beyond the Lighthouse. Constable. 227 |
Reception | Muriel Spark | MS
received many honours, including being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1963, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
in 1978, an Officier de l'Ordre des... |
Reception | Maggie Gee | Already a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
, MG
became its first female Chair in 2004. Gee, Maggie. “Have book, will travel”. Mslexia, Vol. 10 , pp. 16-18. 18 Gee, Maggie. “The other town”. The Author, Vol. cxv , No. 2, pp. 74-5. 75n |
Reception | Kathleen Nott | KN
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1977. Paterson, Elizabeth. “A voice against the tides of fashion: Kathleen Nott”. The Guardian. |
Reception | Frances Cornford | The Royal Society of Literature
awarded Frances Cornford
the Heinemann Prize for Poetry. Who Was Who. A. and C. Black. |
Reception | Stella Gibbons | SG
was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 205 |
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