Society of Authors

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...

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

Growing Up was praised in print by Elizabeth Bowen and privately by C. P. Snow . The Times Literary Supplement found the stories distinguished for both their clarity and their good writng but marred by...

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.

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 These prizes, given annually by the Society of Authors to encourage young poets under thirty, go to published or unpublished volumes of poetry, drama-poems or belles-lettres...

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...

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

PDJ held many influential positions in the arts community. She was a Governor of the BBC (1988-93), a Member of the BBC General Advisory Council (1987-8), Chairman of the Literature Advisory Council at the Arts Council of Great Britain

Commenting on her own work, SK has cited Christina Rossetti saying that in a poet, the ear dictates and the mouth listens. She adds: What fascinates me most is to discover the curious and humorous...

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 .

In 2007 JK won the Cholmondeley Award for poetic achievement, given by the Society of Authors .

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...

The Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College , Cambridge, hold EL 's unpublished memoirs and correspondence from 1888 to 1945. The British Library also holds some of her letters, including correspondence with the League of Dramatists

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...