Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press.
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Textual Production | Carola Oman | CO
's work on a series of leaders from the time of the Napoleonic wars resulted in an invitation to lecture to the Royal Society of Literature
about reading the writings of Nelson
, Collingwood |
Reception | Helen Oyeyemi | In addition to awards for specific texts, Oyeyemi was named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists; she has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
; and she was selected as... |
Reception | Ruth Pitter | RP
received more recognition during her lifetime from the bestowers of literary awards and from fellow-writers than from the critics. In 1955 she became the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry... |
Reception | Barbara Pym | BP
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 44 |
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... |
Reception | Barbara Pym | According to her literary executor, Hazel Holt
, the sudden demand for Pym's books was due in part to publicity, but also to a slow change in the literary climate and to a loyal contingent... |
Reception | Kathleen Raine | KR
declined the invitation of the Royal Society of Literature
to become a Companion of Literature, saying the companionship had been cheapened by its award to the journalistsIris Murdoch
and Anthony Burgess
. Watts, Janet. “Kathleen Raine”. The Guardian, p. 25. 25 |
Reception | Ruth Rendell | RR
was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Following a British Arts Council
Bursary in 1981, she received in 1983 a Popular Culture Association
Award, and in 1990 a Sunday Times Award... |
Reception | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | |
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 | 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 |
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 |
Textual Production | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library
and the Bodleian
have most of her publications. She was a Fellow... |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
gave an address to the Royal Society of Literature
entitled Some Tendencies of Modern English Poetry, an attempt to formulate her anti-modernist creed. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 166 |
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 |
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