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Royal Society of Literature
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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
. Bainbridge, Oliver, and Alfred Edward Turner. John Strange Winter: A Volume of Personal Record. East and West. 95-6 |
Reception | Jane Gardam | As well as winning prizes or making short-lists for individual titles, JG
has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. She received the Heywood Hill lifetime award for literary achievement in... |
Reception | Hannah More | HM
was selected for membership of the Royal Society of Literature
, but declined on the grounds that this would be improper for a woman. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 265n24 |
Reception | Jo Shapcott | JS
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
, and in 1997 she held the position of Penguin Writers Fellow at the British Library
. She was made a CBE (Commander of the... |
Reception | Ivy Compton-Burnett | The Royal Society of Literature
elected her one of its twelve Companions of Literature the following year. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton. 288 The DLB describes this as being recognised as having the dignity of Companion of Literature, the... |
Reception | Penelope Mortimer | 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. Crosland, Margaret. Beyond the Lighthouse. Constable. 227 |
Reception | Maggie Gee | Already a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
, MG
became its first female Chair in 2004. Gee, Maggie. “Have book, will travel”. Mslexia, Vol. 10 , pp. 16-18. 18 Gee, Maggie. “The other town”. The Author, Vol. cxv , No. 2, pp. 74-5. 75n |
Reception | Kathleen Nott | KN
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1977. Paterson, Elizabeth. “A voice against the tides of fashion: Kathleen Nott”. The Guardian. |
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... |
Reception | Stella Gibbons | SG
was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 205 |
Reception | Frances Cornford | The Royal Society of Literature
awarded Frances Cornford
the Heinemann Prize for Poetry. Who Was Who. A. and C. Black. |
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. 235 Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 277 |
Reception | Helen Oyeyemi | In addition to awards for specific texts, Oyeyemi was named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists; she has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
; and she was selected as... |
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. 44 British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
Reception | Ruth Pitter | 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... |
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