Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Royal Society of Literature
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | John Strange Winter | |
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, 1916. 95-6 |
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... |
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 | Marina Warner | MW
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2025, Annual Volumes. 1999 |
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, 1973. 74 Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson, 1913–2025. (1927): 773 |
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 |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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. qtd. in “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 139 |
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... |
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, 1944. 51 |
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... |
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... |
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1826: The Royal Society of Literature received...
Writing climate item
1826
The Royal Society of Literature
received its charter; it had been founded several years previously.
“Companions of Literature”. Royal Society of Literature.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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