Society of Authors

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation E. H. Young
Before the First World War EHY was a keen climber or mountaineer. During the war she worked in a munitions factory after some time as a groom. She joined the Society of Authors during the...
Occupation John Strange Winter
She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , and a member of the Society of Authors .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 Fay Weldon
FW was awarded a Society of Authors travelling scholarship.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press.
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Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW was stringent about granting permission to use Joyce's texts (for which the demand was such that the Board of Trade 's paper restrictions often impeded projects to reprint), and insisted that foreign rights should...
Occupation Joanna Trollope
JT is strongly committed to philanthropic action. She is the patron of a number of charities and has worked with the Society of Authors , the National Literacy Trust , and the talking books sponsored...
Leisure and Society Elizabeth Taylor
ET wrote that she liked routine and was always disconcerted when I am asked for my life story, for nothing sensational, thank heavens, has ever happened.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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She had a passion for modern painting, and...
Leisure and Society May Sinclair
MS , since 1897 a member of the Society of Authors , was among those who signed a letter calling for an end to the practice of publishing cheap editions of books within two years...
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
VSW began work in the immediate aftermath of The Land, when she felt that she was seen as a popular, not a serious poet, and wished to vindicate the genre on which she had...
Leisure and Society Carol Rumens
She belongs to the Society of Authors .
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Friends, Associates F. Mabel Robinson
FMR shared to the full the social involvement of her family with entertaining leading figures in London cultural life: such men as John Singer Sargent , Robert Browning , William Morris , and Oscar Wilde
Wealth and Poverty Charlotte Riddell
The year after issuing her final publication, the nearly seventy-year-old CR became the first writer to receive a pension—of sixty pounds a year—from the Society of Authors .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Occupation Deborah Moggach
DM now earns her living as a journalist and critic. Late in the twentieth century she became Chairman of the Society of Authors . This stepped up the number of favours demanded of her as...
Occupation George Meredith
GM received several honours for his literary achievements, including the Order of Merit from Edward VII and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature . In 1892 he succeeded Tennyson as president of...
Reception Medbh McGuckian
This same year MMG received an Eric Gregory award. These prizes, given annually by the Society of Authors to encourage young poets under thirty, go to published or unpublished volumes of poetry, drama-poems or belles-lettres...

Timeline

28 September 1883: A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant,...

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28 September 1883

A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant , gathered to found the Company of Authors, later the Society of Authors , to improve the earning prospects of writers and lobby for copyright protection.

May 1890: Walter Besant founded The Author, the journal...

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May 1890

Walter Besant founded The Author, the journal (then monthly) of the Society of Authors which promoted authors' interests and supported grievances against the publishing industry. Besant edited the journal until 1901.

27 June 1894: Mudie's Circulating Library and bookseller...

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27 June 1894

Mudie's Circulating Library and bookseller W. H. Smith together announced they would not pay more than four shillings a volume for novels; this forced publishers to abandon triple-decker format, and quickly led to its replacement...

1 January 1900: The Net Book Agreement went into effect,...

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1 January 1900

The Net Book Agreement went into effect, establishing minimum prices for the sale of books.

1906: At the Annual General Meeting of the Society...

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1906

At the Annual General Meeting of the Society of Authors , George Bernard Shaw deplored the dragging down of literary earnings by groups possessing a non-literary income, particularly married women.

1908-1909: The issue of cheap 7d cloth-bound reprints...

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1908-1909

The issue of cheap 7d cloth-bound reprints of copyright works became a real threat to the profitability to author and publisher of the 6s novel.

1937: The British Screenwriters' Association was...

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1937

The British Screenwriters' Association was established under the auspices of the Society of Authors .

23 April 1975: A major demonstration was held in Belgrave...

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23 April 1975

A major demonstration was held in Belgrave Square, London, in support of Public Lending Right.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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1984: The Authors' Foundation was set up to make...

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1984

The Authors' Foundation was set up to make awards to writers: it marked the centenary of the Society of Authors and had help from the Royal Literary Fund ; it had Antonia Fraser and Michael Holroyd

By April 2004: Plans to scrap the Recommended Retail Price...

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By April 2004

Plans to scrap the Recommended Retail Price for books in Britain (the price printed on the jacket flap or paperback cover) were being opposed by the Society of Authors and individual writers.

14 October 2010: Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture in the coalition...

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14 October 2010

Ed Vaizey , Minister for Culture in the coalition British parliament, divulged to the Society of Authors his government's intention to close the Public Lending Right body and transfer its functions (distributing payments to writers...

14 September 2011: The clock began ticking for a five-week period...

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14 September 2011

The clock began ticking for a five-week period during which, under the auspices of the Society of Authors , a number of British authors and tweeters (including Sarah Waters ) collaborated on a tweetathon...

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