In 1954 BB
was awarded the Cheltenham Festival
Prize for a first novel, consisting of a payment of fifty pounds. Her publisher, Rupert Hart-Davis
, had entered the book without her knowledge. She went to...
Reception
Patricia Beer
PB
, still unknown as a poet, won second prize at the Cheltenham Festival
for a linked series of eight poems about shipwreck, entitled The Loss of the Magyar.
Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research.