Austin, Allan E. Elizabeth Bowen. Revised, Twayne, 1989.
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Royal Society of Literature
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Antonia Fraser | AF
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
and has won the Wolfson History Prize and the Prix Caumont La Force. Several universities have awarded her honorary degrees, beginning with Hull University
in... |
| Reception | Muriel Spark | MS
received many honours, including being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1963, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
in 1978, an Officier de l'Ordre des... |
| 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 | Elizabeth Bowen | The distinguished status of Companion of Literature was conferred on EB
by the Royal Society of Literature
. Bowen, Elizabeth. The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, –9 Feb. 1981. prelims |
| Reception | Penelope Mortimer | PM
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. The domestic world of her novels, wrote P. J. Keating
in the Penguin Companion to Literature, hovers continually on the edge of nightmare. qtd. in Crosland, Margaret. Beyond the Lighthouse. Constable, 1981. 227 |
| Reception | Mavis Gallant | Although MG
never attended a post-secondary institution, she was the recipient of at least eight honorary degrees from Canadian universities between 1984 and 1998, in addition to being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature |
| 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, 1990. prelims Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., St James Press, 1996. 155 |
| Reception | Kathleen Nott | KN
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1977. Paterson, Elizabeth. “A voice against the tides of fashion: Kathleen Nott”. The Guardian, 23 Feb. 1999. |
| Reception | Jane Gardam | As well as winning prizes or making short-lists for individual titles, JG
has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. She received the Heywood Hill lifetime award for literary achievement in... |
| Reception | Jo Shapcott | JS
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
, and in 1997 she held the position of Penguin Writers Fellow at the British Library
. She was made a CBE (Commander of the... |
| Reception | Maggie Gee | Already a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
, MG
became its first female Chair in 2004. Gee, Maggie. “Have book, will travel”. Mslexia, Vol. 10 , 1 June–30 Nov. 2001, pp. 16-18. 18 Gee, Maggie. “The other town”. The Author, Vol. cxv , No. 2, 1 June 2004– 2025, pp. 74-5. 75n |
| 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, 1984. 288 The DLB describes this as being recognised as having the dignity of Companion of Literature, the... |
| Reception | Anne Sexton | The book was listed as a Poetry Book Society
recommendation and AS
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 243 |
| 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, 1998. 205 |
| 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 |
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