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Reception | Phyllis Bentley | PB
became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. She was awarded an OBE in 1970. Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research, 1998. 129 |
Reception | Alice Meynell | |
Reception | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
's poetry was broadcast on the BBC
's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1987, a CBE in... |
Reception | Barbara Pym | According to her literary executor, Hazel Holt
, the sudden demand for Pym's books was due in part to publicity, but also to a slow change in the literary climate and to a loyal contingent... |
Reception | Ruth Pitter | RP
received more recognition during her lifetime from the bestowers of literary awards and from fellow-writers than from the critics. In 1955 she became the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry... |
Reception | Malorie Blackman | In 2005 MB
received the Eleanor Farjeon Award from the British Children's Book Circle
for her body of work (then extending over fifteen years). The same year she was awarded the OBE and in 2009... |
Reception | Hannah More | HM
was selected for membership of the Royal Society of Literature
, but declined on the grounds that this would be improper for a woman. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 265n24 |
Reception | Elaine Feinstein | EF
became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1980. In 1990 she won the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry and was given an Honorary DLitt by the University of Leicester
. Falconer, Helen. “Saturday Review: Family Affairs”. The Guardian, 13 Jan. 2001, p. 10. 10 Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Feinstein, Elaine. Selected Poems. Carcanet, 1994. back cover |
Reception | Helen Oyeyemi | In addition to awards for specific texts, Oyeyemi was named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists; she has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
; and she was selected as... |
Reception | Elizabeth Bowen | The distinguished status of Companion of Literature was conferred on EB
by the Royal Society of Literature
. Austin, Allan E. Elizabeth Bowen. Revised, Twayne, 1989. chronology Bowen, Elizabeth. The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, –9 Feb. 1981. prelims |
Reception | Penelope Mortimer | PM
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. The domestic world of her novels, wrote P. J. Keating
in the Penguin Companion to Literature, hovers continually on the edge of nightmare. qtd. in Crosland, Margaret. Beyond the Lighthouse. Constable, 1981. 227 |
Reception | Antonia Fraser | AF
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
and has won the Wolfson History Prize and the Prix Caumont La Force. Several universities have awarded her honorary degrees, beginning with Hull University
in... |
Reception | Muriel Spark | MS
received many honours, including being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1963, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
in 1978, an Officier de l'Ordre des... |
Reception | Brigid Brophy | BB
was awarded the London Magazine prize for prose in 1962 and the Tony Godwin Award in 1985. Brophy, Brigid. The King of a Rainy Country. Virago, 1990. prelims Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., St James Press, 1996. 155 |
Reception | Kathleen Nott | KN
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1977. Paterson, Elizabeth. “A voice against the tides of fashion: Kathleen Nott”. The Guardian, 23 Feb. 1999. |
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