Royal Society of Literature

She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , and a member of the Society of Authors .

In 1893 JSW became the first woman to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . She was the subject of a biography by Oliver Bainbridge in 1915. Recent critical work...

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...

MW was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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 ...

AT edited the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature , new series, volume 28: Essays by Divers Hands.

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. She had a passion for modern painting, and...

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...

GBS did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one. The major collection of her papers at Boston University includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...

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...

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...