Dunmore, Helen. “Cheques for Authors”. The Author, Vol.
cx
, No. 3, The Society of Authors, pp. 119-20. 119-20
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Occupation | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | During the First World War EBO
did her bit by giving informal lectures, first on the motives and issues of the Napoleonic Wars, then on English literature. She also sat on a committee of the... |
Publishing | Helen Dunmore | HD
contributed to The Author (journal of the Society of Authors
) an article, Cheques for Authors, about being an assessor for the award of prizes. Dunmore, Helen. “Cheques for Authors”. The Author, Vol. cx , No. 3, The Society of Authors, pp. 119-20. 119-20 |
Anthologization | Maureen Duffy | MD
contributed an essay to Whose Loan is it Anyway?, a volume published by the Society of Authors
to mark the twentieth anniversary of the passing of the Public Lending Right Act. “PLR Celebrates 20th Anniversary”. ALCS News, p. 13. 13 |
Reception | Maureen Duffy | Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1985. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. The Author. Alexander P. Watt. Autumn 1999: 96 |
Reception | Margaret Drabble | MD
was awarded a Society of Authors
scholarship for travel abroad. Sadler, Lynn Veach. Margaret Drabble. Twayne. 4 Stovel, Nora Foster. Margaret Drabble: Symbolic Moralist. Starmont House. vii |
Leisure and Society | May Crommelin | MC
was a member of the Albemarle Club
. Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research. vol. 1 |
Leisure and Society | Lady Colin Campbell | LCC
was a sportswoman who enjoyed fishing, bicycling, and fencing as well as pursuing her interests in art, travel, music, the theatre, and charitable philanthropy. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Jordan, Anne. Love Well the Hour: The Life of Lady Colin Campbell (1857-1911). Troubador Publishing Ltd. 147 |
Friends, Associates | Mona Caird | She met Arthur Symons
in June 1889, and in the following month Thomas Hardy
carefully arranged to sit between her and Rosamund Marriott Watson
(and opposite F. Mabel Robinson
) at a dinner of the... |
Leisure and Society | Mona Caird | As well as the Society of Authors
, MC
belonged to the feminist Pioneer Club
. The Men and Women's Club
, however, felt her too radical and unpredictable to be desirable as a member... |
Reception | Frances Hodgson Burnett | FHB
's own dramatization, The Real Little Lord Fauntleroy, was a hit on the the same scale of her original novel, first in London, then for two years in the British provinces, and... |
Occupation | Brigid Brophy | BB
set up this group with four other writers including her husband
. She said she took this on because she feared that the Society of Authors
was mishandling a project which was originally her... |
Reception | Christine Brooke-Rose | The Times Literary Supplement reviewer found Out exhausting to read and hard to grasp. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3273 (19 November 1964): 1033 Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press. 228 |
Occupation | Sir Walter Besant | On 28 September 1883 SWB
chaired a meeting from which came the founding of the Society of Authors
. From 1868 he served as secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund
. He also helped establish... |
Leisure and Society | Sybille Bedford | SB
belonged to the Society of Authors
and to PEN
(of which she was vice-president for the year 1979). “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Occupation | Nina Bawden | NB
sat on various literary committees: PEN International
, the Society of Authors
, and the Royal Society of Literature
. She was president of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists
, following in... |
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