Royal Society of Literature

After the publication of Tobit Transplanted, SB was hurt when the book was not carried by the bookshops in Hong Kong (where she and her husband were now living). She articulated what she saw...

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...

BE became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . Two years after this, in 2006, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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

PB became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . She was awarded an OBE in 1970.

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...

UAF 's poetry was broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, a CBE in...

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...

In 2005 MB received the Eleanor Farjeon Award from the British Children's Book Circle for her body of work (then extending over fifteen years). The same year she was awarded the OBE and in 2009...

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

EF became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1980. In 1990 she won the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry and was given an Honorary DLitt by the University of Leicester .

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...

The distinguished status of Companion of Literature was conferred on EB by the Royal Society of Literature .

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.

AF is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won the Wolfson History Prize and the Prix Caumont La Force. Several universities have awarded her honorary degrees, beginning with Hull University in...