Royal Society of Literature

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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...
Intertextuality and Influence Ali Smith
Remarkably too, the print-run made a deliberate switch midway in the order of its two stories—of a fifteenth-century Italian painter and of a modern British teenager—and copies were randomized for distribution, so buyers do not...
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...
Textual Production G. B. Stern
GBS did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one.
Stern, G. B. Trumpet Voluntary. Cassell.
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The major collection of her papers at Boston University includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...
Wealth and Poverty Charlotte Stopes
Following the death of her husband, CS found herself perpetually under financial strain. According to a letter written on 22 September 1922 to the Royal Society of Literature , she believed herself to be too...
Leisure and Society Elizabeth Taylor
ET wrote that she liked routine and was always disconcerted when I am asked for my life story, for nothing sensational, thank heavens, has ever happened.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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She had a passion for modern painting, and...
Textual Production Angela Thirkell
AT edited the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature , new series, volume 28: Essays by Divers Hands.
British Book News. British Council.
(1956): 497
Reception Rose Tremain
When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT was among them (along with Pat Barker , Martin Amis , Salman Rushdie ...
Textual Production Anna Jane Vardill
William E. A. Axon read to a meeting of the Royal Society of Literature a paper about AJV , offering previously unknown information about her and her poem Christobell, A Gothic Tale, and debunking...
Reception Helen Waddell
HW 's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from British Academy membership by opposition...
Textual Production Helen Waddell
Helen Waddell published her history monograph The Wandering Scholars, which made her the first woman to win the A. C. Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature .
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable.
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Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson.
(1927): 773
Reception Marina Warner
MW was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
1999
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 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...
Occupation John Strange Winter
She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , and a member of the Society of Authors .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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