Arts Council of Great Britain

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Textual Production Elizabeth Jennings
EJ published with a small press her earliest volume, Poems, which brought her an Arts Council award.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2705 (4 December 1953): 778
Morrish, Hilary et al. The Poet Speaks: Interviews with Contemporary Poets. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
91
“Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library.
Textual Production Ruth Rendell
In the same year that she received a British Arts Council Bursary, RR published her novel Put on by Cunning, about investigating the identity of an imposter.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(7 May 1981): 12
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 87. Gale Research.
316
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
52: 369
Textual Production Ruth Rendell
RR published her novel The Lake of Darkness, for which the following year she was awarded an Arts Council of Great Britain National Book Award for Genre Fiction.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 87. Gale Research.
322
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
Klein, Kathleen Gregory, editor. Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood.
295
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
52: 369
Textual Production Karen Gershon
KG published (the same month as her book of the testimonies of child refugees) Selected Poems, which brought her both an Arts Council award and the Jewish Chronicle Book Prize.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1967
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Gershon, Karen. Coming Back From Babylon. Gollancz.
back cover
Textual Production Maud Sulter
MS exhibited her photography and mixed media work in Britain, Ireland, Germany, South Africa, and North America. The public collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The City Art Centre
Textual Features Margaret Drabble
After harking back to the days in which eminent authors were not public figures, she amusingly described the culture of public performance which arose during the 1960s. Highlights in her narrative were the first Writers'...
Textual Features Bernice Rubens
This is a novel almost without women. The job in the title was named after George Ponsonby, a United Nations investigator in Java, who had died by accident, mowed down by an out-of-control tractor...
Reception Lettice Cooper
LC was awarded Arts Council bursaries in 1968 and 1979, an Eric Gregory travelling scholarship in 1977, and the OBE in 1978.
Contemporary Novelists mistakenly dates the awarding of her OBE as 1980.
In 1987...
Reception Elizabeth Jennings
She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council (after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972.
“Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library.
Some critics disparage EJ 's work along lines effectively summarized by Robert Crawford
Reception Sylvia Kantaris
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...
Reception Philip Larkin
This collection was a Poetry Book Society choice. It received an award from the Arts Council and brought Larkin the Queen's Medal for Poetry in June 1965.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press.
62
Christopher Ricks hailed PL as the best...
Reception Buchi Emecheta
She served as a Member of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1982 to 1983, and in 1986 was made a Fellow of the University of London (where she had been a lecturer since...
Reception Ruth Rendell
RR was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . Following a British Arts Council Bursary in 1981, she received in 1983 a Popular Culture Association Award, and in 1990 a Sunday Times Award...
Reception Michèle Roberts
Between her first and second novels, the Arts Council made MR a grant (on the second application) of a thousand pounds to support her writing. This seemed to her an enormous sum; it bought...
Reception Christina Stead
The prize was worth $10,000.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg.
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The Council minutes described CS as a person who had not lived in Australia for forty years and whose Australian citizenship was in doubt. Nor was her contribution to...

Timeline

9 August 1946: The Arts Council of Great Britain received...

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9 August 1946

The Arts Council of Great Britain received its royal charter; its purpose was to make fine arts more accessible to the public by organizing exhibitions and preserving art.

March 1969: Novelist Angus Wilson, recently appointed...

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March 1969

Novelist Angus Wilson , recently appointed Chair of the Literature Panel of the Arts Council , organised the council's first Writers' Tour, to North Wales.

About October 1973: The Women's Theatre Group (still in being...

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About October 1973

The Women's Theatre Group (still in being as the Sphinx Theatre Company ) was founded in London as a feminist and socialist theatre group; its twin organization the Women's Theatre Company proved short-lived.

April 1974: The first number of Ian Hamilton's New Review...

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April 1974

The first number of Ian Hamilton 's New Review (successor to The Review) included contributions from Dan Jacobson and Edna O'Brien ; it ran for fifty issues, ending in 1979.

Early 1975: Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company was founded...

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Early 1975

Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company was founded as a result of plans by a London co-operative community arts resource centre, Inter-Action , for a season of gay plays to follow their successful women's season.

14 August 1975: The Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company was...

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14 August 1975

The Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company was founded in London by female and male performers, many of whom had already worked with the Women's Street Theatre Company or the Women's Theatre Company .

1994: The British Arts Council formulated a policy...

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1994

The British Arts Council formulated a policy whereby developers applying for planning permission are requested to spend one or a half percent of their planning gain on art for the development.

1 April 2002: Britain's existing Arts Council and its ten...

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1 April 2002

Britain's existing Arts Council and its ten Regional Arts Boards were amalgamated to create a single coherent, cohesive, simplified funding body speaking strongly and as one for the arts.

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