Society of Authors

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Maureen Duffy
MD contributed an essay to Whose Loan is it Anyway?, a volume published by the Society of Authors to mark the twentieth anniversary of the passing of the Public Lending Right Act.
“PLR Celebrates 20th Anniversary”. ALCS News, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1999, p. 13.
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Anthologization Antonia Fraser
AF contributed an essay to Whose Loan Is It Anyway?, a 1999 collection issued by the Society of Authors to mark the twentieth anniversary of the passing of the Public Lending Right Act.
The Author. Alexander P. Watt.
(Autumn 1999): 96
Anthologization Hilary Mantel
Having contributed an essay to Whose Loan is it Anyway? Essays in celebration of PLR 's Twentieth Anniversary, 1999, published by the Society of Authors , HM went on to write another on recent...
death Evelyn Glover
The date of EG 's death is not known, but her correspondence with the Society of Authors , Add MSS 63250, 3. ff. 10-71, is dated in the British Library Manuscript Catalogue 1921-1941. The National Register of Archives
Family and Intimate relationships Rosamond Lehmann
RL 's elder sister, Helen, later worked for the Society of Authors . Her younger sister, Beatrix , became eminent as an actress, although her Communist beliefs somewhat damaged her career.
Friends, Associates F. Mabel Robinson
FMR shared to the full the social involvement of her family with entertaining leading figures in London cultural life: such men as John Singer Sargent , Robert Browning , William Morris , and Oscar Wilde
Friends, Associates Mona Caird
She met Arthur Symons in June 1889, and in the following month Thomas Hardy carefully arranged to sit between her and Rosamund Marriott Watson (and opposite F. Mabel Robinson ) at a dinner of the...
Leisure and Society May Crommelin
MC was a member of the Albemarle Club .
Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research, 1979, 2 vols.
vol. 1
She also belonged to the Society of Authors , and acted as a steward (along with over a hundred other luminaries including Walter Besant
Leisure and Society May Sinclair
MS , since 1897 a member of the Society of Authors , was among those who signed a letter calling for an end to the practice of publishing cheap editions of books within two years...
Leisure and Society Lucille Iremonger
She also belonged to the Society of Authors and the Forum Club .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Leisure and Society Elizabeth Jennings
EJ also belonged to the Society of Authors .
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes.
Leisure and Society Carol Rumens
She belongs to the Society of Authors .
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Leisure and Society Sybille Bedford
SB belonged to the Society of Authors and to PEN (of which she was vice-president for the year 1979).
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Leisure and Society Penelope Lively
Living in Oxford, PL became an aficionado of local churches, visiting them and studying their features with the help of the guidebooks of Nikolaus Pevsner .
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Grove Press, 2001.
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She also became a member of PEN International
Leisure and Society Karen Gershon
KG belonged to the Society of Authors and the Israeli Hebrew Writers' Association .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

Timeline

28 September 1883: A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant,...

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28 September 1883

A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant , gathered to found the Company of Authors, later the Society of Authors , to improve the earning prospects of writers and lobby for copyright protection.
Parker, Derek. “Onward to 3000”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1999, pp. 166-8.
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May 1890: Walter Besant founded The Author, the journal...

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May 1890

Walter Besant founded The Author, the journal (then monthly) of the Society of Authors which promoted authors' interests and supported grievances against the publishing industry. Besant edited the journal until 1901.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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27 June 1894: Mudie's Circulating Library and bookseller...

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27 June 1894

Mudie's Circulating Library and bookseller W. H. Smith together announced they would not pay more than four shillings a volume for novels; this forced publishers to abandon triple-decker format, and quickly led to its replacement...

1 January 1900: The Net Book Agreement went into effect,...

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1 January 1900

The Net Book Agreement went into effect, establishing minimum prices for the sale of books.
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
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Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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Curwen, Peter. The UK Publishing Industry. Pergamon Press, 1981.
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1906: At the Annual General Meeting of the Society...

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1906

At the Annual General Meeting of the Society of Authors , George Bernard Shaw deplored the dragging down of literary earnings by groups possessing a non-literary income, particularly married women.
The Author. Alexander P. Watt.
(Winter 2000) cxi: 4, Shaw Supplement

1908-1909: The issue of cheap 7d cloth-bound reprints...

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1908-1909

The issue of cheap 7d cloth-bound reprints of copyright works became a real threat to the profitability to author and publisher of the 6s novel.
Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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1937: The British Screenwriters' Association was...

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1937

The British Screenwriters' Association was established under the auspices of the Society of Authors .
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
198

23 April 1975: A major demonstration was held in Belgrave...

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23 April 1975

A major demonstration was held in Belgrave Square, London, in support of Public Lending Right.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
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1984: The Authors' Foundation was set up to make...

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1984

The Authors' Foundation was set up to make awards to writers: it marked the centenary of the Society of Authors and had help from the Royal Literary Fund ; it had Antonia Fraser and Michael Holroyd

By April 2004: Plans to scrap the Recommended Retail Price...

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By April 2004

Plans to scrap the Recommended Retail Price for books in Britain (the price printed on the jacket flap or paperback cover) were being opposed by the Society of Authors and individual writers.
“Authors fight plans that could slash earnings”. Mslexia, No. 21, Apr. 2004, p. 11.

14 October 2010: Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture in the coalition...

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14 October 2010

Ed Vaizey , Minister for Culture in the coalition British parliament, divulged to the Society of Authors his government's intention to close the Public Lending Right body and transfer its functions (distributing payments to writers...

14 September 2011: The clock began ticking for a five-week period...

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14 September 2011

The clock began ticking for a five-week period during which, under the auspices of the Society of Authors , a number of British authors and tweeters (including Sarah Waters ) collaborated on a tweetathon...

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