Royal Society of Literature

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...

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 .

PL is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Chair of the Society of Authors . She was made a CBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end...

The distinguished status of Companion of Literature was conferred on EB by the Royal Society of Literature .

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...

The book was listed as a Poetry Book Society recommendation and AS was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .

BB was awarded the London Magazine prize for prose in 1962 and the Tony Godwin Award in 1985. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1973.Peter Parker

In 1893 JSW became the first woman to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . She was the subject of a biography by Oliver Bainbridge in 1915. Recent critical work...

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

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...

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...

The Royal Society of Literature elected her one of its twelve Companions of Literature the following year.

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...

HM was selected for membership of the Royal Society of Literature , but declined on the grounds that this would be improper for a woman.

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.