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Anthologization | Hilary Mantel | Having contributed an essay to Whose Loan is it Anyway? Essays in celebration of PLR
's Twentieth Anniversary, 1999, published by the Society of Authors
, HM
went on to write another on recent... |
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... |
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's unpublished memoirs and correspondence from 1888 to 1945.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 |
Leisure and Society | Penelope Lively | Living in Oxford, PL
became an aficionado of local churches, visiting them and studying their features with the help of the guidebooks of Nikolaus Pevsner
. Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Grove Press. 68 |
Reception | Penelope Lively | PL
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
and a former Chair of the Society of Authors
. Lively, Penelope. The Five Thousand and One Nights. Fjord Press. 149 |
Occupation | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
was an International Vice-President of PEN
, a Vice-President of the College of Psychic Studies
, and a member of the Council of the Society of Authors
. Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press. 19 Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus. biographical note |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
's elder sister, Helen, later worked for the Society of Authors
. Her younger sister, Beatrix
, became eminent as an actress, although her Communist beliefs somewhat damaged her career. |
Publishing | Rosamond Lehmann | For this novel she changed her publisher to Collins
, who had made her a generous offer a couple of years before. She set out not to hurt the feelings of Harold Raymond
of Chatto and Windus |
Reception | Judith Kazantzis | In 2007 JK
won the Cholmondeley Award for poetic achievement, given by the Society of Authors
. Judith Kazantzis. http://www.judithkazantzis.com/. |
Publishing | Sheila Kaye-Smith | She was helped and encouraged in this work by her friend the novelist Walter Lionel George
. Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery. 79 |
Reception | Sylvia Kantaris | Commenting on her own work, SK
has cited Christina Rossetti
saying that in a poet, the ear dictates and the mouth listens. She adds: What fascinates me most is to discover the curious and humorous... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Jennings | |
Occupation | P. D. James | She retired to become a full-time writer at the end of 1979, six months before her sixtieth birthday. Then she served as a magistrate for Willesden (1979-82) and for Inner London (1984). She has been... |
Occupation | P. D. James | Her term as President of the Society of Authors
(a position bestowed as the society's ultimate honour but demanding active involvement in both broad policy and specific issues) came to an end on 3... |
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 |
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