Royal Society of Literature

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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.
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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 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 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...

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