Royal Society of Literature

FH 's Dartmoor, A Poem won a prize of fifty guineas from the Royal Society of Literature .

FH had submitted The Last Constantine, the collection's lead non-dramatic poem (written in 105 Spenserian stanzas) for another £50 prize offered for a poem on the topic of the fall of Constantinople sponsored by...

In England she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .

PDJ held many influential positions in the arts community. She was a Governor of the BBC (1988-93), a Member of the BBC General Advisory Council (1987-8), Chairman of the Literature Advisory Council at the Arts Council of Great Britain

William 's bank had collapsed (not the only one to do so) during the economic depression. At this time he and his family had to sell off many assets and prized possessions (including his valuable...

Kennedy addressed the question of the entertainment value of novels again in a talk to the Royal Society of Literature , of which she was a Fellow. She titled her talk The Novelist and His Public.

PL declined the poet laureateship, which was offered him after John Betjeman died (on 19 May 1984), on the grounds that he was no longer a practising poet. His many honorary doctorates included those with...

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 .

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...

PL is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Chair of the Society of Authors . She was made a CBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end...

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...

AM was twice nominated for the Poet Laureateship. The first time was in 1895 during the debate about a successor to Tennyson ; it was Patmore who nominated her and strenuously argued for her appointment...

HM was selected for membership of the Royal Society of Literature , but declined on the grounds that this would be improper for a woman.

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.

KN was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1977.