Royal Society of Literature

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Reception Sybille Bedford
SB was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . She was awarded an OBE in 1981 and made a Companion of Literature in 1994. In the early twenty-first century Counterpoint press of New...
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 Stella Benson
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...
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...
Reception Bernardine Evaristo
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.
Evaristo, Bernardine. Bernardine Evaristo, Writer. http://bevaristo.com/.
Reception Philip Larkin
PL declined the poet laureateship, which was offered him after John Betjeman died (on 19 May 1984), on the grounds that he was no longer a practising poet. His many honorary doctorates included those with...
Reception Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black.
Reception Phyllis Bentley
PB became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . She was awarded an OBE in 1970.
“A Glimpse of the Past: The Literary ’Inheritance’ of Dr Phyllis Bentley”. Calderdale Council: Calderdale Libraries: Local History.
Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research.
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Reception Marina Warner
MW was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
1999
Reception Rosamond Lehmann
RL was created a CBE for her services to literature; five years later she was elected a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature .
Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press.
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Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus.
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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 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 U. A. Fanthorpe
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...
Reception Deborah Levy
DL is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . She says she is proud of the way I have walked women into the centre of my fictions and plays and let them be...
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.
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