Royal Society of Literature

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 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 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.
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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 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.
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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.
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Reception Muriel Spark
MS received many honours, including being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1963, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1978, an Officier de l'Ordre des...
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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, pp. 16-18.
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Gee, Maggie. “The other town”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 74-5.
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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.
Reception Frances Cornford
The Royal Society of Literature awarded Frances Cornford the Heinemann Prize for Poetry.
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black.
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.
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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.
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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...
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.
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Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press.
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Reception Helen Oyeyemi
In addition to awards for specific texts, Oyeyemi was named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists; she has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature ; and she was selected as...
Reception Anita Desai
Many critics agree that AD is a formidable writer, at home in intimate psychological worlds
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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as well as in social, historical, and political polemics. Salman Rushdie has named her central subject as solitude, and...

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