Olivia Manning (1908–1980)

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1. Olivia Manning

   Author of The Balkan Trilogy, The Levant Trilogy, The Doves of Venus

2. Anthony Trollope

   Author of Can You Forgive Her?, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage

3. Molly Keane

   Author of Good Behaviour, Devoted Ladies, The Rising Tide

4. Elizabeth Taylor

   Author of Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Angel, Palladian

5. Barbara Pym

   Author of A Glass of Blessings, An Unsuitable Attachment, A Few Green Leaves

6. Anthony Powell

   Author of A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement, Autumn, A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement, Winter, A Question of Upbringing

7. Paul Scott

   Author of The Jewel in the Crown, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils

8. Winifred Holtby

   Author of South Riding, The Land of Green Ginger, Anderby Wold

9. Rosamond Lehmann

   Author of The Weather in the Streets, Invitation to the Waltz, The Ballad and the Source

10. Antonia White

    Author of Frost in May, The Lost Traveller, Beyond the Glass

11. J. G. Farrell

    Author of The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles, The Singapore Grip

12. Rebecca West

    Author of The Return of the Soldier, The Fountain Overflows, Cousin Rosamund

13. Mary Wesley

    Author of The Camomile Lawn, Harnessing Peacocks, An Imaginative Experience

14. Elizabeth Bowen

    Author of The Heat of the Day, The Last September, The House in Paris

15. Rose Macaulay

    Author of The Towers of Trebizond, The World My Wilderness

16. Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Author of Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman, Summer Will Show, Mr. Fortune's Maggot

17. Margaret Kennedy

    Author of The Constant Nymph, Troy Chimneys, Ladies of Lyndon

18. Enid Bagnold

    Author of The Squire, The Loved and Envied, The Happy Foreigner

19. Storm Jameson

    Author of Company Parade, None Turn Back

20. Lettice Cooper

    Author of The New House, Fenny