Society of Authors

As well as the Society of Authors , MC belonged to the feminist Pioneer Club . The Men and Women's Club , however, felt her too radical and unpredictable to be desirable as a member...

LCC was a sportswoman who enjoyed fishing, bicycling, and fencing as well as pursuing her interests in art, travel, music, the theatre, and charitable philanthropy. She liked smoking Russian cigarettes, and her love of...

ET wrote that she liked routine and was always disconcerted when I am asked for my life story, for nothing sensational, thank heavens, has ever happened. She had a passion for modern painting, and...

She retired to become a full-time writer at the end of 1979, six months before her sixtieth birthday. Then she served as a magistrate for Willesden (1979-82) and for Inner London (1984). She has been...

Her term as President of the Society of Authors (a position bestowed as the society's ultimate honour but demanding active involvement in both broad policy and specific issues) came to an end on 3...

During the First World War EBO did her bit by giving informal lectures, first on the motives and issues of the Napoleonic Wars, then on English literature. She also sat on a committee of the...

RL was an International Vice-President of PEN , a Vice-President of the College of Psychic Studies , and a member of the Council of the Society of Authors .

Before the First World War EHY was a keen climber or mountaineer. During the war she worked in a munitions factory after some time as a groom. She joined the Society of Authors during the...

NB sat on various literary committees: PEN International , the Society of Authors , and the Royal Society of Literature . She was president of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists , following in...

MG has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex , the University of East Anglia , Sheffield Hallam, and Bath Spa University. She also teaches for the Arvon Foundation and similar bodies, has...

While bringing up her children, AF persevered with the writing career she had already launched. As the wife of a wealthy man, she did voluntary work of various kinds, chairing the Prison Committee and, for...

On 28 September 1883 SWB chaired a meeting from which came the founding of the Society of Authors . From 1868 he served as secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund . He also helped establish...

She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , and a member of the Society of Authors .

BB set up this group with four other writers including her husband . She said she took this on because she feared that the Society of Authors was mishandling a project which was originally her...

HSW was stringent about granting permission to use Joyce's texts (for which the demand was such that the Board of Trade 's paper restrictions often impeded projects to reprint), and insisted that foreign rights should...