Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944
Person
Biography
Alison Fell was born in Dumfries, and lived in various parts of Scotland before moving to London in 1970, where she worked in the Women’s Street Theatre Group and for Spare Rib.
Her first collection of poems, Kisses for Mayakovsky, won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award in 1984, and her novel, Mer de Glace, won the Boardman Tasker Award in 1991.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Literary papers of Alison Fell.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12394/1-85
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry, short stories, novels, and works for radio, film and the theatre.This collection includes papers relating to the following published works:'The bad box' (London: Virago, 1987)'The crystal owl' (London: Methuen, 1988)'Dreams, like heretics' (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1997)'Every move you make' (London: Virago, 1984)'The grey dancer'...
Dates:
1971-2001.
Literary papers of Alison Fell.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13438
Scope and Contents
Literary papers, circa 1991-2012, of Alison Fell, mainly relating to `Lightyear` (Middlesbrough: Smokestack Books, 2005) `The Element –inth in Greek` (Dingwall: Sandstone Press, 2012).
Dates:
c 1991-2012
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