Royal Society of Literature

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Reception Sybille Bedford
SB was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . She was awarded an OBE in 1981 and made a Companion of Literature in 1994. In the early twenty-first century Counterpoint press of New...
Textual Production Ruth Fainlight
RF 's statement for the Poetry Archive (for which she recorded four poems in 2007) says: I am a poet who is a woman, not a woman poet.
The Poetry Archive. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do.
She has also said, however: because I...
Textual Production Phyllis Bentley
Most of PB 's manuscripts are held by Halifax Central Library . The Royal Society of Literature in London holds a collection of her letters, while her correspondence with Vera Brittain is held by McMaster University
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
VSW gave an address to the Royal Society of Literature entitled Some Tendencies of Modern English Poetry, an attempt to formulate her anti-modernist creed.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
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Textual Production Marie Corelli
MC , invited by the Royal Society of Literature to be their first female lecturer, presented The Signs of the Times in St Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, to the Scottish Society of Literature and Art .
Kowalczyk, Richard L. “A Bibliography of Marie Corelli”. Bulletin of Bibliography, Vol.
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, pp. 141-2.
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Ransom, Teresa. The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers. Sutton.
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Textual Production Lady Margaret Sackville
LMS published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library and the Bodleian have most of her publications. She was a Fellow...
Textual Production Carola Oman
CO 's work on a series of leaders from the time of the Napoleonic wars resulted in an invitation to lecture to the Royal Society of Literature about reading the writings of Nelson , Collingwood
Textual Production G. B. Stern
GBS did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one.
Stern, G. B. Trumpet Voluntary. Cassell.
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The major collection of her papers at Boston University includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...
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...
Textual Production Angela Thirkell
AT edited the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature , new series, volume 28: Essays by Divers Hands.
British Book News. British Council.
(1956): 497
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
The book was launched on this date by the Royal Society of Literature .
Textual Production Anna Jane Vardill
William E. A. Axon read to a meeting of the Royal Society of Literature a paper about AJV , offering previously unknown information about her and her poem Christobell, A Gothic Tale, and debunking...
Textual Production Helen Waddell
Helen Waddell published her history monograph The Wandering Scholars, which made her the first woman to win the A. C. Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature .
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable.
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Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson.
(1927): 773
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.
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Wealth and Poverty Charlotte Stopes
Following the death of her husband, CS found herself perpetually under financial strain. According to a letter written on 22 September 1922 to the Royal Society of Literature , she believed herself to be too...

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