Royal Society of Literature

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1994.
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Reception Maureen Duffy
Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1985.
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2026, Annual Volumes.
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 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 Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2026, Many volumes.
Reception Beryl Bainbridge
BB was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., St James Press, 1996.
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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 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, 1993.
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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 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. 1st ed., St Martin’s Press, 1992.
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Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus, 1985.
biographical note
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 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, 8 July 2003, 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 Deborah Levy
DL is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . She says she is proud of the way I have walked women into the centre of my fictions and plays and let them be...
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 Barbara Pym
BP was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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