Arts Council of Great Britain

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Reception Christina Stead
The prize was worth $10,000.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg.
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The Council minutes described CS as a person who had not lived in Australia for forty years and whose Australian citizenship was in doubt. Nor was her contribution to...
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.
In 1987...
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.
Some critics disparage EJ 's work along lines effectively summarized by Robert Crawford
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.
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Christopher Ricks hailed PL as the best...
Reception Buchi Emecheta
She served as a Member of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1982 to 1983, and in 1986 was made a Fellow of the University of London (where she had been a lecturer since...
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...
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...
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.
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“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.
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Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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