Society of Authors

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...

She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , and a member of the Society of Authors .

Before the First World War EHY was a keen climber or mountaineer. During the war she worked in a munitions factory after some time as a groom. She joined the Society of Authors during the...

PB is a member of the Society of Authors and of PEN .

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...

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.

She was helped and encouraged in this work by her friend the novelist Walter Lionel George . This and her next novel were written on the dining-room table of her parents' house, with all...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

This was followed by an Arts Council Fellowship for the years 1977-9, and a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship in 1988.

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