Royal Society of Literature

LMS also contributed to a collection issued by the Royal Society of Literature in 1931: Essays by Divers Hands (edited by Sir Francis Younghusband). She wrote the forewords to Lorna Keeling Connard's part-verse...

Pym apparently accused herself of nervousness in meeting Bowen, which had caused her to talk rather too much about herself! EB discusses methods of working . . . She is very kind and obviously feels...

Remarkably too, the print-run made a deliberate switch midway in the order of its two stories—of a fifteenth-century Italian painter and of a modern British teenager—and copies were randomized for distribution, so buyers do not...

ET wrote that she liked routine and was always disconcerted when I am asked for my life story, for nothing sensational, thank heavens, has ever happened. She had a passion for modern painting, and...

In England she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

MG has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex, the University of East Anglia, Sheffield Hallam, and Bath Spa University. She also teaches for the Arvon Foundation and similar bodies, has...

She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a member of the Society of Authors.

NB sat on various literary committees: PEN International, the Society of Authors, and the Royal Society of Literature. She was president of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists, following in...

GM received several honours for his literary achievements, including the Order of Merit from Edward VII and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1892 he succeeded Tennyson as president of...

MC was one of the first authors of the modern best seller. She published thirty-one popular novels, including one, published posthumously, which fictionalizes events from her own life. She also wrote short stories (collected...

The manuscript of QEI's early translation from Marguerite de Navarre was reproduced in facsimile as The Mirror of the Sinful Soul, edited by Percy W. Ames for the Royal Society of Literature.

RP received more recognition during her lifetime from the bestowers of literary awards and from fellow-writers than from the critics. In 1955 she became the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry...

In 2005 MB received the Eleanor Farjeon Award from the British Children's Book Circle for her body of work (then extending over fifteen years). The same year she was awarded the OBE and in 2009...

HM was selected for membership of the Royal Society of Literature, but declined on the grounds that this would be improper for a woman.

EF became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1980. In 1990 she won the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry and was given an Honorary DLitt by the University of Leicester.