British Book News. British Council.
(1956): 497
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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... |
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 | 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. 2005, http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do. |
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 | 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, 1944. 51 |
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 | 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. 30 , 1973, pp. 141-2. 141 Ransom, Teresa. The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers. Sutton, 1999. 112 |
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, 1984. 166 |
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 | 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 | 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 |
Textual Production | Maureen Duffy | The book was launched on this date by the Royal Society of Literature
. |
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, 1973. 74 Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson, 1913–2024. (1927): 773 |
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... |
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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