Royal Society of Literature

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Felicia Hemans
FH 's Dartmoor, A Poem won a prize of fifty guineas from the Royal Society of Literature .
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843, 2 vols.
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Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
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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.
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She was the subject of a biography by Oliver Bainbridge in 1915. Recent critical work...
Reception Frances Cornford
The Royal Society of Literature awarded Frances Cornford the Heinemann Prize for Poetry.
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2025, Many volumes.
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 Anita Desai
AD won the Sahitya Akademi award, the Royal Society of Literature 's Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and the National Academy of Letters award for this novel.
Choudhury, Bidulata. Women and Society in the Novels of Anita Desai. Nice Printing Press, 1995.
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British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Susan Hill reviewed the novel as beautifully accomplished...
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 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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Reception Anita Desai
Many critics agree that AD is a formidable writer, at home in intimate psychological worlds
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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as well as in social, historical, and political polemics. Salman Rushdie has named her central subject as solitude, and...
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
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 Enid Bagnold
EB was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1970, and awarded a CBE in 1976, at the same time as Iris Murdoch .
Berney, Kathryn A., editor. Contemporary Women Dramatists. St. James Press, 1994.
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Reception Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2025, Many volumes.
Reception Beryl Bainbridge
BB was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., St James Press, 1996.
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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 Maureen Duffy
Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1985.
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2025, Annual Volumes.
She was also granted life membership of the Society of Authors in recognition of her work for Public Lending Right.
The Author. Alexander P. Watt.
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