Royal Society of Literature

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Reception Enid Bagnold
EB was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1970, and awarded a CBE in 1976, at the same time as Iris Murdoch .
Berney, Kathryn A., editor. Contemporary Women Dramatists. St. James Press.
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Reception Beryl Bainbridge
BB was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press.
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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...
Reception Sybille Bedford
SB was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . She was awarded an OBE in 1981 and made a Companion of Literature in 1994. In the early twenty-first century Counterpoint press of New...
Reception Stella Benson
After the publication of Tobit Transplanted, SB was hurt when the book was not carried by the bookshops in Hong Kong (where she and her husband were now living). She articulated what she saw...
Reception Phyllis Bentley
PB became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . She was awarded an OBE in 1970.
“A Glimpse of the Past: The Literary ’Inheritance’ of Dr Phyllis Bentley”. Calderdale Council: Calderdale Libraries: Local History.
Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Phyllis Bentley
Most of PB 's manuscripts are held by Halifax Central Library . The Royal Society of Literature in London holds a collection of her letters, while her correspondence with Vera Brittain is held by McMaster University
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 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.
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Bowen, Elizabeth. The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
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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
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1973.
Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press.
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Peter Parker
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.
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The DLB describes this as being recognised as having the dignity of Companion of Literature, the...
Textual Production Marie Corelli
MC , invited by the Royal Society of Literature to be their first female lecturer, presented The Signs of the Times in St Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, to the Scottish Society of Literature and Art .
Kowalczyk, Richard L. “A Bibliography of Marie Corelli”. Bulletin of Bibliography, Vol.
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Ransom, Teresa. The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers. Sutton.
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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...
Reception Frances Cornford
The Royal Society of Literature awarded Frances Cornford the Heinemann Prize for Poetry.
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black.
Reception Anita Desai
AD won the Sahitya Akademi award, the Royal Society of Literature 's Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and the National Academy of Letters award for this novel.
Choudhury, Bidulata. Women and Society in the Novels of Anita Desai. Nice Printing Press.
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British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Susan Hill reviewed the novel as beautifully accomplished...

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1826: The Royal Society of Literature received...

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1826

The Royal Society of Literature received its charter; it had been founded several years previously.

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