Society of Authors

By about now, says HB , a serial by Oliver Sandys could command two hundred pounds for its first printing, and the book publisher would offer an advance of another two hundred. While she enjoyed...

PB is a member of the Society of Authors and of PEN .

Honours were showered upon Barrie in his later days. He was created a baronet in 1913 and awarded the Order of Merit in 1920. A number of universities honoured him, and in 1928 he became...

NB sat on various literary committees: PEN International , the Society of Authors , and the Royal Society of Literature . She was president of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists , following in...

SB belonged to the Society of Authors and to PEN (of which she was vice-president for the year 1979).

On 28 September 1883 SWB chaired a meeting from which came the founding of the Society of Authors . From 1868 he served as secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund . He also helped establish...

The Times Literary Supplement reviewer found Out exhausting to read and hard to grasp. It was, however, a winner of the Travelling Prize of the Society of Authors .

BB set up this group with four other writers including her husband . She said she took this on because she feared that the Society of Authors was mishandling a project which was originally her...

FHB 's own dramatization, The Real Little Lord Fauntleroy, was a hit on the the same scale of her original novel, first in London, then for two years in the British provinces, and...

She met Arthur Symons in June 1889, and in the following month Thomas Hardy carefully arranged to sit between her and Rosamund Marriott Watson (and opposite F. Mabel Robinson ) at a dinner of the...

As well as the Society of Authors , MC belonged to the feminist Pioneer Club . The Men and Women's Club , however, felt her too radical and unpredictable to be desirable as a member...

LCC was a sportswoman who enjoyed fishing, bicycling, and fencing as well as pursuing her interests in art, travel, music, the theatre, and charitable philanthropy. She liked smoking Russian cigarettes, and her love of...

MC was a member of the Albemarle Club . She also belonged to the Society of Authors , and acted as a steward (along with over a hundred other luminaries including Walter Besant

MD was awarded a Society of Authors scholarship for travel abroad.

MD contributed an essay to Whose Loan is it Anyway?, a volume published by the Society of Authors to mark the twentieth anniversary of the passing of the Public Lending Right Act.