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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Bernice Rubens | BR
was made a Fellow of the University of Wales at Cardiff
in 1982, received an Honorary DLitt from the same institution in 1991, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in... |
| Reception | Sylvia Townsend Warner | She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
, and in June 1977 the Aldeburgh Festival honoured her with a special programme of her work. As if to reinforce the parallel sometimes... |
| 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 | 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 | Carol Rumens | |
| 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 | Antonia White | By 1960 AW
was forgotten, as she indicates in a bitterly funny diary passage about a Society of Authors
party at which she was repeatedly mistaken for somebody else, and awakened no interest at all... |
| 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, p. 10. 10 Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Feinstein, Elaine. Selected Poems. Carcanet. back cover |
| 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. 149 |
| 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. Twayne. chronology Bowen, Elizabeth. The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. prelims |
| 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 | 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. 243 |
| 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. prelims Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press. 155 |
| Reception | John Strange Winter | In 1893 JSW
became the first woman to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bainbridge, Oliver, and Alfred Edward Turner. John Strange Winter: A Volume of Personal Record. East and West. 95-6 |
| 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 |
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