Society of Authors

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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...
politics Pat Barker
PB is a member of the Society of Authors and of PEN .
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
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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 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, 1958.
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This and her next novel were written on the dining-room table of her parents' house, with all...
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.
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, No. 3, The Society of Authors, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1999, pp. 119-20.
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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 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 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...
Reception Margaret Drabble
MD was awarded a Society of Authors scholarship for travel abroad.
Sadler, Lynn Veach. Margaret Drabble. Twayne, 1986.
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Stovel, Nora Foster. Margaret Drabble: Symbolic Moralist. Starmont House, 1989.
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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...
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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