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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. 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 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 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... |
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'... |
Reception | Ruth Rendell | RR
was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Following a British Arts Council
Bursary in 1981, she received in 1983 a Popular Culture Association
Award, and in 1990 a Sunday Times Award... |
Reception | Michèle Roberts | Between her first and second novels, the Arts Council
made MR
a grant (on the second application) of a thousand pounds to support her writing. This seemed to her an enormous sum; it bought... |
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 | 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 | 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. |
Timeline
9 August 1946: The Arts Council of Great Britain received...
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9 August 1946
The Arts Council of Great Britain
received its royal charter; its purpose was to make fine arts more accessible to the public by organizing exhibitions and preserving art.
March 1969: Novelist Angus Wilson, recently appointed...
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March 1969
Novelist Angus Wilson
, recently appointed Chair of the Literature Panel of the Arts Council
, organised the council's first Writers' Tour, to North Wales.
About October 1973: The Women's Theatre Group (still in being...
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About October 1973
The Women's Theatre Group
(still in being as the Sphinx Theatre Company
) was founded in London as a feminist and socialist theatre group; its twin organization the Women's Theatre Company
proved short-lived.
April 1974: The first number of Ian Hamilton's New Review...
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April 1974
The first number of Ian Hamilton
's New Review (successor to The Review) included contributions from Dan Jacobson
and Edna O'Brien
; it ran for fifty issues, ending in 1979.
Early 1975: Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company was founded...
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Early 1975
Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company
was founded as a result of plans by a London co-operative community arts resource centre, Inter-Action
, for a season of gay plays to follow their successful women's season.
14 August 1975: The Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company was...
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14 August 1975
The Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company
was founded in London by female and male performers, many of whom had already worked with the Women's Street Theatre Company
or the Women's Theatre Company
.
1994: The British Arts Council formulated a policy...
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1994
The British Arts Council
formulated a policy whereby developers applying for planning permission are requested to spend one or a half percent of their planning gain on art for the development.
1 April 2002: Britain's existing Arts Council and its ten...
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1 April 2002
Britain's existing Arts Council
and its ten Regional Arts Boards were amalgamated to create a single coherent, cohesive, simplified funding body speaking strongly and as one for the arts.
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