“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Society of Authors
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Leisure and Society | Lucille Iremonger | |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
also belonged to the Society of Authors
. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2025, Annual Volumes. |
Leisure and Society | Carol Rumens | She belongs to the Society of Authors
. British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
Occupation | Maggie Gee | MG
has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex
, the University of East Anglia
, |
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... |
Occupation | Antonia Fraser | While bringing up her children, AF
persevered with the writing career she had already launched. As the wife of a wealthy man, she did voluntary work of various kinds, chairing the Prison Committee
and, for... |
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... |
Occupation | John Strange Winter | She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
, and a member of the Society of Authors
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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... |
Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
was stringent about granting permission to use Joyce's texts (for which the demand was such that the Board of Trade
's paper restrictions often impeded projects to reprint), and insisted that foreign rights should... |
Occupation | Joanna Trollope | JT
is strongly committed to philanthropic action. She is the patron of a number of charities and has worked with the Society of Authors
, the National Literacy Trust
, and the talking books sponsored... |
Occupation | George Meredith | GM
received several honours for his literary achievements, including the Order of Merit from Edward VII
and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature
. In 1892 he succeeded Tennyson
as president of... |
Occupation | Deborah Moggach | DM
now earns her living as a journalist and critic. Late in the twentieth century she became Chairman of the Society of Authors
. This stepped up the number of favours demanded of her as... |
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... |
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