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Reception | Felicia Hemans | FH
's Dartmoor, A Poem won a prize of fifty guineas from the Royal Society of Literature
. Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn. 235 Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 277 |
Textual Production | Felicia Hemans | FH
had submitted The Last Constantine, the collection's lead non-dramatic poem (written in 105 Spenserian stanzas) for another £50 prize offered for a poem on the topic of the fall of Constantinople sponsored by... |
Literary responses | Lucille Iremonger | In England she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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 |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Anne Jevons | William
's bank had collapsed (not the only one to do so) during the economic depression. At this time he and his family had to sell off many assets and prized possessions (including his valuable... |
Textual Production | Margaret Kennedy | Kennedy addressed the question of the entertainment value of novels again in a talk to the Royal Society of Literature
, of which she was a Fellow. She titled her talk The Novelist and His Public. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 36 |
Reception | Philip Larkin | PL
declined the poet laureateship, which was offered him after John Betjeman
died (on 19 May 1984), on the grounds that he was no longer a practising poet. His many honorary doctorates included those with... |
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. St Martin’s Press. 19 Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus. biographical note |
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 | 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 |
Occupation | George Meredith | GM
received several honours for his literary achievements, including the Order of Merit from Edward VII
and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature
. In 1892 he succeeded Tennyson
as president of... |
Reception | Alice Meynell | |
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. 265n24 |
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. Crosland, Margaret. Beyond the Lighthouse. Constable. 227 |
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. |
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