Society of Authors

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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...
Reception Penelope Lively
PL is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Chair of the Society of Authors .
Lively, Penelope. The Five Thousand and One Nights. Fjord Press.
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She was made a CBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end...
Reception Fay Weldon
FW was awarded a Society of Authors travelling scholarship.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press.
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Reception Antonia White
By 1960 AW was forgotten, as she indicates in a bitterly funny diary passage about a Society of Authors party at which she was repeatedly mistaken for somebody else, and awakened no interest at all...
Reception Olivia Manning
Growing Up was praised in print by Elizabeth Bowen and privately by C. P. Snow . The Times Literary Supplement found the stories distinguished for both their clarity and their good writng but marred by...
Reception Margaret Drabble
MD was awarded a Society of Authors scholarship for travel abroad.
Sadler, Lynn Veach. Margaret Drabble. Twayne.
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Stovel, Nora Foster. Margaret Drabble: Symbolic Moralist. Starmont House.
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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 These prizes, given annually by the Society of Authors to encourage young poets under thirty, go to published or unpublished volumes of poetry, drama-poems or belles-lettres...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.
She was also granted life membership of the Society of Authors in recognition of her work for Public Lending Right.
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.
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
VSW began work in the immediate aftermath of The Land, when she felt that she was seen as a popular, not a serious poet, and wished to vindicate the genre on which she had...
Textual Production Evelyn Glover
EG 's correspondence with the Society of Authors , 1921-1941, is now in the British Library , catalogued as Add MSS 63250, 3. ff. 10-71.
National Archives,. “National Register of Archives (NRA)”. National Archives (UK).
“The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue”. The British Library Website.
Textual Production Georgette Heyer
The British Library holds her correspondence with the Society of Authors , and Duke University her mass of literary notes and drafts.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Beginning in the 1990s Arrow Booksbeautifully repackaged and reissued almost sixty of...
Textual Production Edith Lyttelton
The Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College , Cambridge, hold EL 's unpublished memoirs and correspondence from 1888 to 1945. The British Library also holds some of her letters, including correspondence with the League of Dramatists

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