Loudan, Jack, and T. Stanley Mercer. O Rare Amanda!. 2nd ed., Chatto and Windus, 1969.
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Reception | Caryl Churchill | CC
has been recognised in Britain and the US with several major awards for play writing. As early as 1961, she won the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize at Oxford University
. New York productions of... |
Reception | Hilary Mantel | HM
already features in critical surveys of the modern British novel, such as that by Nick Rennison
, 2004. A. S. Byatt
discusses her (among writers of both sexes including predecessors Elizabeth Bowen
and Muriel Spark |
Reception | Iris Murdoch | Other honours in 1987 included being made a Companion of Literature, and receiving an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University
. Cambridge University
awarded her a Honorary LittD in 1993. She received Honorary Fellowships from St Anne's College, Oxford |
Reception | Amanda McKittrick Ros | At St John's College, Cambridge
, for instance, there flourished an Amanda Ros Club, whose members amused themselves by trying to write in the Amanda style. Loudan, Jack, and T. Stanley Mercer. O Rare Amanda!. 2nd ed., Chatto and Windus, 1969. 1 |
Reception | André Gide | He received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University
in the same year. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Reception | John Henry Newman | This tract had the result of getting the Tract
s banned. Tutors at Oxford
wrote to demand the author's resignation, principals of colleges drew up a manifesto against it, and the university's Hebdomadal Board condemned it. Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962. 100 Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000. |
Reception | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
's poetry was broadcast on the BBC
's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1987, a CBE in... |
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Reception | A. S. Byatt | ASB
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and received an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford University
on 20 June 2007. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes. 50 “Encaenia”. Oxford Today, Vol. 20 , No. 1, 2007, p. 11. 11 |
Reception | Mary Barber | Mary Chandler
responded with praise of MB
's Lines with Wit and Humour fraught, / Pure as her Morals, sprightly as her Thought. qtd. in Budd, Adam. “’Merit in Distress’: The Troubled Success of Mary Barber”. Review of English Studies, Vol. 53 , May 2002, pp. 204-27. 205 |
Reception | Muriel Spark | MS
received an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University
. “Events”. Oxford Today, Vol. 12 , No. 1, Blackwell Publishers, 1999, p. 2. 2 |
Reception | Mary Somerville | MS
outstanding intellectual achievements were memorialised in the foundation after her death of Somerville College
as an Oxford University
women's college. In 2017 she was honoured with an image (in a fetching bonnet) on the... |
Reception | Marina Warner | Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute
(1992), Trinity College, Cambridge
(1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University
(1999), Stanford University
(2000), and All Souls College
, Oxford (2001). She... |
Reception | Evelyn Underhill | EU
received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford
and head retreats in the Anglican Church
, she was elected a... |
Reception | Ethel Smyth | ES
's musical career earned her two honorary Doctorates of Music: from the University of Durham
in 1911, and from Oxford
in 1926 (the first woman so honoured who was not part of the Oxford... |
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