Sadler, Lynn Veach. Margaret Drabble. Twayne.
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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 |
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to encourage young poets under thirty, go to published or unpublished volumes of poetry, drama-poems or belles-lettres...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 | 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 | 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... |
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. |
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 |
Publishing | Maggie Gee | This big book, under its working title of The Keeper of the Gate, was to be the second of two contracted to Flamingo
. But after the first book, Lost Children, the head... |
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 |
Publishing | Georgette Heyer | She had begun the story in order to amuse her sick brother Boris. Her father encouraged her to prepare her work for publication, and she dedicated the book to him by his initials. She sent... |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | The commission for this book from Chatto
had been spurred by an invitation from Frank Debenham
on behalf of the Colonial Office
for a book of 100,000 words, for which they would offer £400 and... |
Publishing | Kathleen E. Innes | This, her most substantial publication, was published by Jonathan Cape
. Her choice of this firm greatly bothered her existing publisher, Leonard Woolf
, who constantly worried about larger commercial companies luring away successful authors... |
Publishing | Hélène Barcynska | By about now, says HB
, a serial by Oliver Sandys could command two hundred pounds for its first printing, and the book publisher would offer an advance of another two hundred. While she enjoyed... |
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 |
politics | Pat Barker | PB
is a member of the Society of Authors
and of PEN
. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 50: 12 |
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