Society of Authors

Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1985. She was also granted life membership of the Society of Authors in recognition of her work for Public Lending Right.

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.

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...

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...

This was followed by an Arts Council Fellowship for the years 1977-9, and a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship in 1988.

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...

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.

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...

MG has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex , the University of East Anglia , Sheffield Hallam, and Bath Spa University. She also teaches for the Arvon Foundation and similar bodies, has...

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...

KG belonged to the Society of Authors and the Israeli Hebrew Writers' Association .

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

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.

The British Library holds her correspondence with the Society of Authors , and Duke University her mass of literary notes and drafts. Beginning in the 1990s Arrow Booksbeautifully repackaged and reissued almost sixty of...

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...