Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
Society of Authors
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Maureen Duffy | Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1985. The Author. Alexander P. Watt. Autumn 1999: 96 |
Publishing | Helen Dunmore | HD
contributed to The Author (journal of the Society of Authors
) an article, Cheques for Authors, about being an assessor for the award of prizes. Dunmore, Helen. “Cheques for Authors”. The Author, Vol. cx , No. 3, The Society of Authors, pp. 119-20. 119-20 |
Occupation | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | During the First World War EBO
did her bit by giving informal lectures, first on the motives and issues of the Napoleonic Wars, then on English literature. She also sat on a committee of the... |
Wealth and Poverty | Margiad Evans | Money was always tight throughout ME
's life. She began her writing career relying on her father's tiny pension to supplement her earnings from intermittent paid work, and it was a problem for her when... |
Reception | Eva Figes | This was followed by an Arts Council Fellowship for the years 1977-9, and a Society of Authors
Travelling Scholarship in 1988. Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press. |
Occupation | Antonia Fraser | While bringing up her children, AF
persevered with the writing career she had already launched. As the wife of a wealthy man, she did voluntary work of various kinds, chairing the Prison Committee
and, for... |
Anthologization | Antonia Fraser | AF
contributed an essay to Whose Loan Is It Anyway?, a 1999 collection issued by the Society of Authors
to mark the twentieth anniversary of the passing of the Public Lending Right
Act. The Author. Alexander P. Watt. (Autumn 1999): 96 |
Wealth and Poverty | Maggie Gee | During the 1990s when the rejection of her novel The White Family put her in financial difficulty, the Society of Authors
(besides securing a pay-off from her publisher) gave her grant of £3,000; her friend... |
Occupation | Maggie Gee | MG
has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex
, the University of East Anglia
, |
Publishing | Maggie Gee | This big book, under its working title of The Keeper of the Gate, was to be the second of two contracted to Flamingo
. But after the first book, Lost Children, the head... |
Leisure and Society | Karen Gershon | KG
belonged to the Society of Authors
and the Israeli Hebrew Writers' Association
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
death | Evelyn Glover | The date of EG
's death is not known, but her correspondence with the Society of Authors
, Add MSS 63250, 3. ff. 10-71, is dated in the British Library Manuscript Catalogue 1921-1941. The National Register of Archives |
Textual Production | Evelyn Glover | EG
's correspondence with the Society of Authors
, 1921-1941, is now in the British Library
, catalogued as Add MSS 63250, 3. ff. 10-71. National Archives,. “National Register of Archives (NRA)”. National Archives (UK). “The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue”. The British Library Website. |
Publishing | Georgette Heyer | She had begun the story in order to amuse her sick brother Boris. Her father encouraged her to prepare her work for publication, and she dedicated the book to him by his initials. She sent... |
Textual Production | Georgette Heyer | The British Library
holds her correspondence with the Society of Authors
, and Duke University
her mass of literary notes and drafts. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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