Hill, Selima. My Sister’s Horse. Smith/Doorstop Books, 1996.
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Connections Sort descending | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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, 1996. 4 |
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 | 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 | 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, 2002. 62 |
Reception | Christina Stead | The prize was worth $10,000. Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995. 462 |
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 | Ruth Rendell | In the same year that she received a British Arts Council
Bursary,RR
published her novelPut 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, 1989. 316 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes. 52: 369 |
Textual Production | Ruth Rendell | RR
published her novelThe 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, 1989. 322 Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2025, Annual Volumes. Klein, Kathleen Gregory, editor. Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood, 1994. 295 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes. 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, 1874–1987. 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, 1990. Gershon, Karen. Coming Back From Babylon. Gollancz, 1979. back cover |
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