“Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library.
Arts Council of Great Britain
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Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. |
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... |
Publishing | Kathleen Nott | In December 1967 she had been awarded an Arts Council
grant of £1,200 (along with Jean Rhys
, Christina Stead
, Lettice Cooper
, Julia Strachey
, and others) to support her writing. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 57121 (11 December 1967): 10 |
Occupation | Marghanita Laski | ML
served as Vice-Chairman of the Arts Council
for these four years, during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (25 February 1982): 11 |
Occupation | Penelope Fitzgerald | As an established author, albeit well past most people's retirement age, PF
lectured and read her work at festivals and other venues, served on the Arts Council
's literature panel, and was a member of... |
Occupation | Antonia Fraser | While bringing up her children, AF
persevered with the writing career she had already launched. As the wife of a wealthy man, she did voluntary work of various kinds, chairing the Prison Committee
and, for... |
Occupation | Rumer Godden | While living in Highgate RG
took to organizing readings: at Foyles
bookshop, promoting young poets; at Kenwood House; and for the Arts Council
, where she spent two years on the Poetry Panel... |
Occupation | P. D. James | She retired to become a full-time writer at the end of 1979, six months before her sixtieth birthday. Then she served as a magistrate for Willesden (1979-82) and for Inner London (1984). She has been... |
Occupation | Marina Warner | MW
has given her time in many public capacities. She was a Member of the Advisory Board of the Royal Mint
(1986-1993); a Member of the Committee of Management of the National Council for One-Parent Families |
Occupation | Margaret Drabble | She had decided while at school that she was going to be an actress. In Stratford both she and Clive Swift acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company
under Peter Hall
, who was setting out... |
Occupation | Margaret Drabble | MD
has taught weekly classes at Morley College
in London and made annual lecture tours for the Arts Council
. Sadler, Lynn Veach. Margaret Drabble. Twayne. 6 Creighton, Joanne V. Margaret Drabble. Methuen. 13 Hattersley, Roy. “The Darling of Hampstead”. The Guardian, pp. 6-7. 7 |
Occupation | Philip Larkin | From the 1960s PL
became a committee-man and public intellectual. He rendered service in various ways to his profession of librarianship. For the Arts Council of Great Britain
he served on the literature panel, and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Selima Hill | This collection was helped on its way by an Arts Council
bursary, awarded in 1993. The cover shows a photograph by Harry Scott
(exhibited in 1986) of a somnolent bull-terrier named Hank, foreshortened to be... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Lettice Cooper | She wrote this book on an Arts Council
grant. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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