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Title
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Society of Authors Members
Description
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By the time of the first general meeting on 18 February 1884, the Society of Authors had 14 <a href="https://historysoa.com/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Vice-President&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CTitle">Vice-Presidents</a> and 68 members. Annual subscription was set at a guinea; life subscription was 10 guineas.<br /><br />Initially, new members could join as Fellows, Members or Associates. Fellow status was abolished; not all Fellows paid for subscription and their position within the Society was thus unclear. Members had to have authored at least one full-length work (whether published or performed). Associates were aspiring writers who may not have had any work published.<br /><br />By 1886, there were 153 members. This rose to 240 in 1888, 372 in 1889, 662 in 1891 and 870 in 1892 (Walter Besant, <a href="https://historysoa.com/publications/1893-Besant-The-Society-of-Authors"><em>The Society of Authors: A Record of Its Action from Its Foundation</em></a>, 1893). By 1912, there were over 2,000 members (<em><a href="https://historysoa.com/publications/1912-Prospectus">Society of Authors Prospectus</a></em>, 1912).<br /><br />This collection currently includes over 200 prominent members of the Society.
Identifier
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people
Person
Birth
Date of birth (YYYY)
1865
Death
Date of death (YYYY)
1926
Sex
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M
Occupation
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Literary Agent
Biography
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William Morris Colles (1865–1926); literary agent, and founder and managing director of <a href="https://historysoa.com/groups-organisations/Authors-Syndicate">The Authors' Syndicate</a> (founded 1890). Leader-writer for <em>The Standard</em>.
Committee(s)
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Committee of Management
Council
Copyright Sub-Committee
Position(s)
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Secretary (Committee of Management)
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<div class="csl-entry">Colles, William Morris. <i>Literature and the Pension List. An Investigation Conducted for the Committee of the Incorporated Society of Authors</i>. London: Henry Glaisher, 1889. <a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924027163488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://archive.org/details/cu31924027163488</a>.</div>
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Title
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Colles, William Morris
Subject
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Colles, William Morris (1865–1926)
Description
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William Morris Colles (1865–1926); literary agent, and founder and managing director of The Authors' Syndicate.
Type
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Person
Identifier
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Colles-William-Morris
Committee of Management
copyright
Council
journalism
pensions