Royal Society of Literature

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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 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 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 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.
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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 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 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 British Academy membership by opposition...
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 Royal Society of Arts.
Evaristo, Bernardine. Bernardine Evaristo, Writer. http://bevaristo.com/.
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.
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Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus.
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Reception Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black.
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.
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Reception Marina Warner
MW was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
1999

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