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Connections
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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. 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... |
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. 57121 (11 December 1967): 10 |
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. 6 Creighton, Joanne V. Margaret Drabble. Methuen. 13 Hattersley, Roy. “The Darling of Hampstead”. The Guardian, pp. 6-7. 7 |
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. (25 February 1982): 11 |
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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