Society of Authors

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Margiad Evans
Money was always tight throughout ME 's life. She began her writing career relying on her father's tiny pension to supplement her earnings from intermittent paid work, and it was a problem for her when...
Wealth and Poverty Charlotte Riddell
The year after issuing her final publication, the nearly seventy-year-old CR became the first writer to receive a pension—of sixty pounds a year—from the Society of Authors .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wealth and Poverty Maggie Gee
During the 1990s when the rejection of her novel The White Family put her in financial difficulty, the Society of Authors (besides securing a pay-off from her publisher) gave her grant of £3,000; her friend...
Textual Production Georgette Heyer
The British Library holds her correspondence with the Society of Authors , and Duke University her mass of literary notes and drafts.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Beginning in the 1990s Arrow Booksbeautifully repackaged and reissued almost sixty of...
Textual Production Edith Lyttelton
The Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College , Cambridge, hold EL 's unpublished memoirs and correspondence from 1888 to 1945. The British Library also holds some of her letters, including correspondence with the League of Dramatists
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
VSW began work in the immediate aftermath of The Land, when she felt that she was seen as a popular, not a serious poet, and wished to vindicate the genre on which she had...
Textual Production Evelyn Glover
EG 's correspondence with the Society of Authors , 1921-1941, is now in the British Library , catalogued as Add MSS 63250, 3. ff. 10-71.
National Archives,. “National Register of Archives (NRA)”. National Archives (UK).
“The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue”. The British Library Website.
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 Margaret Drabble
MD was awarded a Society of Authors scholarship for travel abroad.
Sadler, Lynn Veach. Margaret Drabble. Twayne.
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Stovel, Nora Foster. Margaret Drabble: Symbolic Moralist. Starmont House.
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Reception Olivia Manning
Growing Up was praised in print by Elizabeth Bowen and privately by C. P. Snow . The Times Literary Supplement found the stories distinguished for both their clarity and their good writng but marred by...
Reception Maureen Duffy
Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1985.
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
She was also granted life membership of the Society of Authors in recognition of her work for Public Lending Right.
The Author. Alexander P. Watt.
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Reception Medbh McGuckian
This same year MMG received an Eric Gregory award. These prizes, given annually by the Society of Authors to encourage young poets under thirty, go to published or unpublished volumes of poetry, drama-poems or belles-lettres...
Reception Eva Figes
This was followed by an Arts Council Fellowship for the years 1977-9, and a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship in 1988.
Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press.
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 Sir J. M. Barrie
Honours were showered upon Barrie in his later days. He was created a baronet in 1913 and awarded the Order of Merit in 1920. A number of universities honoured him, and in 1928 he became...

Timeline

28 September 1883: A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant,...

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28 September 1883

A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant , gathered to found the Company of Authors, later the Society of Authors , to improve the earning prospects of writers and lobby for copyright protection.

May 1890: Walter Besant founded The Author, the journal...

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May 1890

Walter Besant founded The Author, the journal (then monthly) of the Society of Authors which promoted authors' interests and supported grievances against the publishing industry. Besant edited the journal until 1901.

27 June 1894: Mudie's Circulating Library and bookseller...

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27 June 1894

Mudie's Circulating Library and bookseller W. H. Smith together announced they would not pay more than four shillings a volume for novels; this forced publishers to abandon triple-decker format, and quickly led to its replacement...

1 January 1900: The Net Book Agreement went into effect,...

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1 January 1900

The Net Book Agreement went into effect, establishing minimum prices for the sale of books.

1906: At the Annual General Meeting of the Society...

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1906

At the Annual General Meeting of the Society of Authors , George Bernard Shaw deplored the dragging down of literary earnings by groups possessing a non-literary income, particularly married women.

1908-1909: The issue of cheap 7d cloth-bound reprints...

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1908-1909

The issue of cheap 7d cloth-bound reprints of copyright works became a real threat to the profitability to author and publisher of the 6s novel.

1937: The British Screenwriters' Association was...

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1937

The British Screenwriters' Association was established under the auspices of the Society of Authors .

23 April 1975: A major demonstration was held in Belgrave...

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23 April 1975

A major demonstration was held in Belgrave Square, London, in support of Public Lending Right.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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1984: The Authors' Foundation was set up to make...

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1984

The Authors' Foundation was set up to make awards to writers: it marked the centenary of the Society of Authors and had help from the Royal Literary Fund ; it had Antonia Fraser and Michael Holroyd

By April 2004: Plans to scrap the Recommended Retail Price...

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By April 2004

Plans to scrap the Recommended Retail Price for books in Britain (the price printed on the jacket flap or paperback cover) were being opposed by the Society of Authors and individual writers.

14 October 2010: Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture in the coalition...

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14 October 2010

Ed Vaizey , Minister for Culture in the coalition British parliament, divulged to the Society of Authors his government's intention to close the Public Lending Right body and transfer its functions (distributing payments to writers...

14 September 2011: The clock began ticking for a five-week period...

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14 September 2011

The clock began ticking for a five-week period during which, under the auspices of the Society of Authors , a number of British authors and tweeters (including Sarah Waters ) collaborated on a tweetathon...

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