Royal Society of Literature

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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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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 Penelope Lively
PL is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Chair of the Society of Authors .
Lively, Penelope. The Five Thousand and One Nights. Fjord Press, 1997.
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She was made a CBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end...
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 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, 1998.
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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...
Reception Alice Meynell
AM was twice nominated for the Poet Laureateship. The first time was in 1895 during the debate about a successor to Tennyson ; it was Patmore who nominated her and strenuously argued for her appointment...
Reception U. A. Fanthorpe
UAF 's poetry was broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, a CBE in...
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 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 Hannah More
HM was selected for membership of the Royal Society of Literature , but declined on the grounds that this would be improper for a woman.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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Reception Elaine Feinstein
EF became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1980. In 1990 she won the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry and was given an Honorary DLitt by the University of Leicester .
Falconer, Helen. “Saturday Review: Family Affairs”. The Guardian, 13 Jan. 2001, p. 10.
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Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Feinstein, Elaine. Selected Poems. Carcanet, 1994.
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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 .
Austin, Allan E. Elizabeth Bowen. Revised, Twayne, 1989.
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Bowen, Elizabeth. The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, –9 Feb. 1981.
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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.
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Crosland, Margaret. Beyond the Lighthouse. Constable, 1981.
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