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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.
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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...
Publishing Kathleen Nott
In December 1967 she had been awarded an Arts Council grant of £1,200 (along with Jean Rhys , Christina Stead , Lettice Cooper , Julia Strachey , and others) to support her writing.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Occupation Antonia Fraser
While bringing up her children, AF persevered with the writing career she had already launched. As the wife of a wealthy man, she did voluntary work of various kinds, chairing the Prison Committee and, for...
Occupation Rumer Godden
While living in Highgate RG took to organizing readings: at Foyles bookshop, promoting young poets; at Kenwood House; and for the Arts Council , where she spent two years on the Poetry Panel...
Occupation Marina Warner
MW has given her time in many public capacities. She was a  Member of the Advisory Board of the Royal Mint (1986-1993); a Member of the Committee of Management of the National Council for One-Parent Families
Occupation P. D. James
She retired to become a full-time writer at the end of 1979, six months before her sixtieth birthday. Then she served as a magistrate for Willesden (1979-82) and for Inner London (1984). She has been...
Occupation Margaret Drabble
She had decided while at school that she was going to be an actress. In Stratford both she and Clive Swift acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company under Peter Hall , who was setting out...
Occupation Margaret Drabble
MD has taught weekly classes at Morley College in London and made annual lecture tours for the Arts Council .
Sadler, Lynn Veach. Margaret Drabble. Twayne.
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Creighton, Joanne V. Margaret Drabble. Methuen.
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In 1999 she was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago .
Hattersley, Roy. “The Darling of Hampstead”. The Guardian, pp. 6-7.
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Occupation Philip Larkin
From the 1960s PL became a committee-man and public intellectual. He rendered service in various ways to his profession of librarianship. For the Arts Council of Great Britain he served on the literature panel, and...
Occupation Marghanita Laski
ML served as Vice-Chairman of the Arts Council for these four years, during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Occupation Penelope Fitzgerald
As an established author, albeit well past most people's retirement age, PF lectured and read her work at festivals and other venues, served on the Arts Council 's literature panel, and was a member of...
Material Conditions of Writing Selima Hill
This collection was helped on its way by an Arts Council bursary, awarded in 1993. The cover shows a photograph by Harry Scott (exhibited in 1986) of a somnolent bull-terrier named Hank, foreshortened to be...
Material Conditions of Writing Lettice Cooper
She wrote this book on an Arts Council grant.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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