Society of Authors

The Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College , Cambridge, hold EL 's unpublished memoirs and correspondence from 1888 to 1945.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

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...

Having contributed an essay to Whose Loan is it Anyway? Essays in celebration of PLR 's Twentieth Anniversary, 1999, published by the Society of Authors , HM went on to write another on recent...

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 These prizes, given annually by the Society of Authors to encourage young poets under thirty, go to published or unpublished volumes of poetry, drama-poems or belles-lettres...

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...

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...

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 .

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

She belongs to the Society of Authors .

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...

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...

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. She had a passion for modern painting, and...

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...

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...

FW was awarded a Society of Authors travelling scholarship.