Royal Society of Literature

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Frances Cornford
The Royal Society of Literature awarded Frances Cornford the Heinemann Prize for Poetry.
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black.
Reception Stella Gibbons
SG was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury.
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Reception Anita Desai
AD won the Sahitya Akademi award, the Royal Society of Literature 's Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and the National Academy of Letters award for this novel.
Choudhury, Bidulata. Women and Society in the Novels of Anita Desai. Nice Printing Press.
44
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Susan Hill reviewed the novel as beautifully accomplished...
Reception Felicia Hemans
FH 's Dartmoor, A Poem won a prize of fifty guineas from the Royal Society of Literature .
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn.
235
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press.
277
Reception Helen Oyeyemi
In addition to awards for specific texts, Oyeyemi was named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists; she has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature ; and she was selected as...
Reception Anita Desai
Many critics agree that AD is a formidable writer, at home in intimate psychological worlds
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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as well as in social, historical, and political polemics. Salman Rushdie has named her central subject as solitude, and...
Reception Ruth Pitter
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...
Reception Enid Bagnold
EB was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1970, and awarded a CBE in 1976, at the same time as Iris Murdoch .
Berney, Kathryn A., editor. Contemporary Women Dramatists. St. James Press.
10
Reception Barbara Pym
BP was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press.
44
Reception Beryl Bainbridge
BB was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press.
64
Reception Rose Tremain
When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT was among them (along with Pat Barker , Martin Amis , Salman Rushdie ...
Reception Maureen Duffy
Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1985.
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
She was also granted life membership of the Society of Authors in recognition of her work for Public Lending Right.
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.
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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...

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