Berney, Kathryn A., editor. Contemporary Women Dramatists. St. James Press.
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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 | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press. 64 |
Occupation | Nina Bawden | 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... |
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 | 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 | 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 |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bentley | Most of PB
's manuscripts are held by Halifax Central Library
. The Royal Society of Literature
in London holds a collection of her letters, while her correspondence with Vera Brittain
is held by McMaster University |
Reception | Malorie Blackman | 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... |
Reception | Elizabeth Bowen | The distinguished status of Companion of Literature was conferred on EB
by the Royal Society of Literature
. Austin, Allan E. Elizabeth Bowen. Twayne. chronology Bowen, Elizabeth. The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. prelims |
Reception | Brigid Brophy | BB
was awarded the London Magazine prize for prose in 1962 and the Tony Godwin Award in 1985. Brophy, Brigid. The King of a Rainy Country. Virago. prelims Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press. 155 |
Reception | Ivy Compton-Burnett | The Royal Society of Literature
elected her one of its twelve Companions of Literature the following year. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton. 288 The DLB describes this as being recognised as having the dignity of Companion of Literature, the... |
Author summary | Marie Corelli | 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... |
Textual Production | Marie Corelli | MC
, invited by the Royal Society of Literature
to be their first female lecturer, presented The Signs of the Times in St Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, to the Scottish Society of Literature and Art
. Kowalczyk, Richard L. “A Bibliography of Marie Corelli”. Bulletin of Bibliography, Vol. 30 , pp. 141-2. 141 Ransom, Teresa. The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers. Sutton. 112 |
Reception | Frances Cornford | The Royal Society of Literature
awarded Frances Cornford
the Heinemann Prize for Poetry. Who Was Who. A. and C. Black. |
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. |
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