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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.
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Another such organisation, the Amanda Ros Society, formed...
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.
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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...
Reception Naomi Mitchison
NM was made an Honorary Fellow of her old college, St Anne's , Oxford .
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2025, Annual Volumes.
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.
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“Encaenia”. Oxford Today, Vol.
20
, No. 1, 2007, p. 11.
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Her official website, www.asbyatt.com/, including comment and a detailed bibliography, became...
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.
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Another English fellow-poet, Mary Jones (to whom Barber's Poems were lent...
Reception Muriel Spark
MS received an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University .
“Events”. Oxford Today, Vol.
12
, No. 1, Blackwell Publishers, 1999, p. 2.
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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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