Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
Royal Society of Literature
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Reception | Maureen Duffy | Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1985. The Author. Alexander P. Watt. Autumn 1999: 96 |
Reception | P. D. James | PDJ
held many influential positions in the arts community. She was a Governor of the BBC
(1988-93), a Member of the BBC General Advisory Council (1987-8), Chairman of the Literature Advisory Council
at the Arts Council of Great Britain |
Reception | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. 139 |
Reception | Barbara Pym | According to her literary executor, Hazel Holt
, the sudden demand for Pym's books was due in part to publicity, but also to a slow change in the literary climate and to a loyal contingent... |
Reception | Sybille Bedford | SB
was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. She was awarded an OBE in 1981 and made a Companion of Literature in 1994. In the early twenty-first century Counterpoint
press of New... |
Reception | Kathleen Raine | KR
declined the invitation of the Royal Society of Literature
to become a Companion of Literature, saying the companionship had been cheapened by its award to the journalistsIris Murdoch
and Anthony Burgess
. Watts, Janet. “Kathleen Raine”. The Guardian, p. 25. 25 |
Reception | Stella Benson | After the publication of Tobit Transplanted, SB
was hurt when the book was not carried by the bookshops in Hong Kong (where she and her husband were now living). She articulated what she saw... |
Reception | Helen Waddell | HW
's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from |
Reception | Bernardine Evaristo | BE
became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Two years after this, in 2006, she was made a Fellow of the Evaristo, Bernardine. Bernardine Evaristo, Writer. http://bevaristo.com/. |
Reception | Philip Larkin | PL
declined the poet laureateship, which was offered him after John Betjeman
died (on 19 May 1984), on the grounds that he was no longer a practising poet. His many honorary doctorates included those with... |
Reception | Ruth Rendell | RR
was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Following a British Arts Council
Bursary in 1981, she received in 1983 a Popular Culture Association
Award, and in 1990 a Sunday Times Award... |
Reception | Phyllis Bentley | PB
became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. She was awarded an OBE in 1970. “A Glimpse of the Past: The Literary ’Inheritance’ of Dr Phyllis Bentley”. Calderdale Council: Calderdale Libraries: Local History. Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research. 129 |
Reception | Marina Warner | |
Reception | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
was created a CBE for her services to literature; five years later she was elected a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature
. Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press. 19 Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus. biographical note |
Reception | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | |
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