“Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library.
Arts Council of Great Britain
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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. |
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 |
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 | Selima Hill | This won the Arvon/Observer International Poetry Competition; the following year SH
won an Arts Council
Bursary. Hill, Selima. My Sister’s Horse. Smith/Doorstop Books. 4 |
Reception | Christina Stead | The prize was worth $10,000. Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg. 462 |
Reception | P. D. James | 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 |
Reception | Dorothy Wordsworth | The poet Fleur Adcock
has named DW
' journals as her desert island book. On an Arts Council
writer's fellowship at Charlotte Mason College
in Ambleside in 1977-8, she bought the Mary Moorman
edition and... |
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... |
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 |
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