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Textual Production | Maud Sulter | MS
exhibited her photography and mixed media work in Britain, Ireland, Germany, South Africa, and North America. The public collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum
in London, The City Art Centre |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
published with a small press her earliest volume, Poems, which brought her an Arts Council
award. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2705 (4 December 1953): 778 Morrish, Hilary et al. The Poet Speaks: Interviews with Contemporary Poets. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 91 “Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library. |
Textual Production | Ruth Rendell | In the same year that she received a British Arts Council
Bursary, RR
published her novel Put on by Cunning, about investigating the identity of an imposter. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (7 May 1981): 12 Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 87. Gale Research. 316 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 52: 369 |
Textual Production | Ruth Rendell | RR
published her novel The Lake of Darkness, for which the following year she was awarded an Arts Council of Great Britain
National Book Award for Genre Fiction. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 87. Gale Research. 322 Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. Klein, Kathleen Gregory, editor. Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood. 295 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 52: 369 |
Textual Production | Karen Gershon | KG
published (the same month as her book of the testimonies of child refugees) Selected Poems, which brought her both an Arts Council
award and the Jewish Chronicle Book Prize. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1967 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Gershon, Karen. Coming Back From Babylon. Gollancz. back cover |
Textual Features | Margaret Drabble | After harking back to the days in which eminent authors were not public figures, she amusingly described the culture of public performance which arose during the 1960s. Highlights in her narrative were the first Writers'... |
Textual Features | Bernice Rubens | This is a novel almost without women. The job in the title was named after George Ponsonby, a United Nations
investigator in Java, who had died by accident, mowed down by an out-of-control tractor... |
Reception | Selima Hill | This won the Arvon/Observer International Poetry Competition; the following year SH
won an Arts Council
Bursary. Hill, Selima. My Sister’s Horse. Smith/Doorstop Books. 4 |
Reception | Christina Stead | The prize was worth $10,000. Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg. 462 |
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 | Dorothy Wordsworth | The poet Fleur Adcock
has named DW
' journals as her desert island book. On an Arts Council
writer's fellowship at Charlotte Mason College
in Ambleside in 1977-8, she bought the Mary Moorman
edition and... |
Reception | Lettice Cooper | LC
was awarded Arts Council
bursaries in 1968 and 1979, an Eric Gregory travelling scholarship in 1977, and the OBE in 1978. Contemporary Novelists mistakenly dates the awarding of her OBE as 1980. |
Reception | Elizabeth Jennings | She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council
(after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972. “Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library. |
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 | Philip Larkin | This collection was a Poetry Book Society
choice. It received an award from the Arts Council
and brought Larkin the Queen's Medal for Poetry in June 1965. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press. 62 |
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