Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press.
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Occupation | Maggie Gee | MG
has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex
, the University of East Anglia
, |
Occupation | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
was an International Vice-President of PEN
, a Vice-President of the College of Psychic Studies
, and a member of the Council of the Society of Authors
. Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press. 19 Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus. biographical note |
Occupation | Brigid Brophy | 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... |
politics | Pat Barker | PB
is a member of the Society of Authors
and of PEN
. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 50: 12 |
Publishing | Rosamond Lehmann | For this novel she changed her publisher to Collins
, who had made her a generous offer a couple of years before. She set out not to hurt the feelings of Harold Raymond
of Chatto and Windus |
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... |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | The commission for this book from Chatto
had been spurred by an invitation from Frank Debenham
on behalf of the Colonial Office
for a book of 100,000 words, for which they would offer £400 and... |
Publishing | Kathleen E. Innes | This, her most substantial publication, was published by Jonathan Cape
. Her choice of this firm greatly bothered her existing publisher, Leonard Woolf
, who constantly worried about larger commercial companies luring away successful authors... |
Publishing | Hélène Barcynska | 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... |
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 |
Publishing | Sheila Kaye-Smith | She was helped and encouraged in this work by her friend the novelist Walter Lionel George
. Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery. 79 |
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... |
Reception | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 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... |
Reception | Penelope Lively | PL
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
and a former Chair of the Society of Authors
. Lively, Penelope. The Five Thousand and One Nights. Fjord Press. 149 |
Reception | Fay Weldon | FW
was awarded a Society of Authors
travelling scholarship. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 63: 440 Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press. 506 |
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