Alliance Of Literary Societies
The Alliance of Literary Societies, or A. L. S., is an umbrella organisation for literary societies mainly based in the United Kingdom. The Alliance of Literary Societies was founded in 1973, as a result of a campaign to preserve a property associated with Charles Dickens, and has over 120 member societies. In May 2010, Jenny Uglow Jennifer Sheila Uglow (, (accessed 5 February 2008).
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ...
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at the age of 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years he returned to school, before he began his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, for education, and for other social ...
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Jenny Uglow
Jennifer Sheila Uglow (, (accessed 5 February 2008).
(accessed 19 August 2022). born 1947) is an English biographer, historian, critic and publisher. She was an editorial director of . She has written critically acclaimed biographies of , , , and
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Aeronwy Thomas
Aeronwy Bryn Thomas-Ellis (3 March 1943 – 27 July 2009) was a poet, writer and translator of Italian poetry. She was the second child and only daughter of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife, Caitlin Macnamara. She had two brothers, Llewelyn and Colm, both also deceased. Life Born in London, it’s thought Aeronwy was named after the River Aeron, in Cardiganshire, Wales, near the banks of which her parents lived intermittently in Plas Gelli, Talsarn, in 1942 and 1943. Between September 1944 and July 1945, she lived with her parents in a bungalow called Majoda, overlooking the sea in New Quay, Cardiganshire. In May 1949, the family moved to the Boat House, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales. At the age of 10, Aeronwy was enrolled by her mother at the Arts Educational School in Tring, Hertfordshire, now Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, also spending one year in 1958 at Dartington Hall School in Devon. Following her father's death in 1953, she and her mother went ...
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Claire Harman (writer)
Claire Harman is a British writer and critic. As a literary critic and book reviewer Harman has written for the ''Times Literary Supplement'', ''Literary Review'', ''Evening Standard'', the ''Sunday Telegraph'' and other publications. Harman is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has taught English at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. She has also taught creative writing at Columbia University. Harman won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1989 for her biography of poet Sylvia Townsend Warner. Her subsequent biographical subjects include Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson. In 2009, Harman published ''Jane's Fame'', a book about the posthumous fame of novelist Jane Austen. In September 2015, Harman won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem of the year for "The Mighty Hudson", first published in the ''Times Literary Supplement''. Bibliography Biographies *1989 — ''Sylvia Townsend Warner'', Chatto & Windus/Minerva *2000 — ''Fanny Burney'', HarperCo ...
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Literary Societies
A literary society is a group of people interested in literature. In the modern sense, this refers to a society that wants to promote one genre of writing or a specific author. Modern literary societies typically promote research, publish newsletters, and hold meetings where findings can be presented and discussed. Some are more academic and scholarly, while others are more social groups of amateurs who appreciate a chance to discuss their favourite writer with other hobbyists. Historically, "literary society" has also referred to salons such as those of Madame de Stael, Madame Geoffrin and Madame de Tencin in Ancien Regime France. Another meaning was of college literary societies, student groups specific to the United States. The oldest formal societies for writing and promoting poetry are the chambers of rhetoric in the Low Countries, which date back to the Middle Ages. 19th century literary societies Modern examples of literary societies include: * In France, Parnassian p ...
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