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Reception Sylvia Townsend Warner
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , and in June 1977 the Aldeburgh Festival honoured her with a special programme of her work. As if to reinforce the parallel sometimes...
Reception Anita Desai
AD won the Sahitya Akademi award, the Royal Society of Literature 's Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and the National Academy of Letters award for this novel.
Choudhury, Bidulata. Women and Society in the Novels of Anita Desai. Nice Printing Press, 1995.
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British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Susan Hill reviewed the novel as beautifully accomplished...
Reception Marina Warner
MW was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes.
1999
Reception Carol Rumens
CR was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Reception Anita Desai
Many critics agree that AD is a formidable writer, at home in intimate psychological worlds
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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as well as in social, historical, and political polemics. Salman Rushdie has named her central subject as solitude, and...
Reception Bernice Rubens
BR was made a Fellow of the University of Wales at Cardiff in 1982, received an Honorary DLitt from the same institution in 1991, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in...
Reception Enid Bagnold
EB was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1970, and awarded a CBE in 1976, at the same time as Iris Murdoch .
Berney, Kathryn A., editor. Contemporary Women Dramatists. St. James Press, 1994.
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Reception Maureen Duffy
Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1985.
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes.
She was also granted life membership of the Society of Authors in recognition of her work for Public Lending Right.
The Author. Alexander P. Watt.
Autumn 1999: 96
Reception Helen Waddell
HW 's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from British Academy membership by opposition...
Reception Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2024, Many volumes.
Reception Beryl Bainbridge
BB was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., St James Press, 1996.
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Reception Philip Larkin
PL declined the poet laureateship, which was offered him after John Betjeman died (on 19 May 1984), on the grounds that he was no longer a practising poet. His many honorary doctorates included those with...
Reception Daphne Du Maurier
DDM was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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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 Rosamond Lehmann
RL was created a CBE for her services to literature; five years later she was elected a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature .
Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. 1st ed., St Martin’s Press, 1992.
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Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus, 1985.
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