Royal Society of Literature

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1990.
prelims
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1973.
Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., St James Press, 1996.
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Peter Parker
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, 23 Feb. 1999.
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
Reception Ivy Compton-Burnett
The Royal Society of Literature elected her one of its twelve Companions of Literature the following year.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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The DLB describes this as being recognised as having the dignity of Companion of Literature, the...
Reception Jane Gardam
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...
Reception Jo Shapcott
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...
Reception Maggie Gee
Already a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , MG became its first female Chair in 2004.
Gee, Maggie. “Have book, will travel”. Mslexia, Vol.
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, 1 June–30 Nov. 2001, pp. 16-18.
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Gee, Maggie. “The other town”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 June 2004– 2025, pp. 74-5.
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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
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, 1991.
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Reception Stella Gibbons
SG was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998.
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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, 1916.
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She was the subject of a biography by Oliver Bainbridge in 1915. Recent critical work...
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, 1843, 2 vols.
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Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
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Reception Frances Cornford
The Royal Society of Literature awarded Frances Cornford the Heinemann Prize for Poetry.
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2025, Many volumes.
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 Anita Desai
AD won the Sahitya Akademi award, the Royal Society of Literature 's Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and the National Academy of Letters award for this novel.
Choudhury, Bidulata. Women and Society in the Novels of Anita Desai. Nice Printing Press, 1995.
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British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Susan Hill reviewed the novel as beautifully accomplished...

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