• Donate now
  • Join now
  • Log In
RSL on FacebookRSL on TwitterRSL on InstagramRSL on YouTubeSubscribe
The Royal Society of Literature
  • Home
  • About us
    • RSL Audience Survey 2016
    • What we do
    • History
    • Council
    • Staff
    • Jobs
  • Join & support
    • Membership
    • Become a Patron
    • Literature Matters Supporters’ Circle
    • Corporate Partnerships
    • A legacy to Literature
    • Volunteer
    • Thank You
  • What’s on
  • Library
    • The Literature Matters Hub
    • Magazine selections
    • Fellows’ Reading Group Recommendations
  • RSL Fellows
    • 40 Under 40
    • Current RSL Fellows
    • Fellowship Election
    • Fellows Remembered
    • Fellows’ Reading Group Recommendations
  • Education
    • Schools Outreach
    • RSL/Booker Prize Foundation Masterclass Top Tips
  • Awards & prizes
    • RSL Christopher Bland Prize
    • RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction
    • RSL Literature Matters Awards
    • RSL Ondaatje Prize
    • The Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award
      • The Nation’s Favourite Second Novel
    • V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
    • Companions of Literature
    • The Benson Medal
  • News
    • Literature in Britain Today
  • Contact
  • Shop

MENU

  • Home
  • About us
    • RSL Audience Survey 2016
    • What we do
    • History
    • Council
    • Staff
    • Jobs
  • Join & support
    • Membership
    • Become a Patron
    • Literature Matters Supporters’ Circle
    • Corporate Partnerships
    • A legacy to Literature
    • Volunteer
    • Thank You
  • What’s on
  • Library
    • The Literature Matters Hub
    • Magazine selections
    • Fellows’ Reading Group Recommendations
  • RSL Fellows
    • 40 Under 40
    • Current RSL Fellows
    • Fellowship Election
    • Fellows Remembered
    • Fellows’ Reading Group Recommendations
  • Education
    • Schools Outreach
    • RSL/Booker Prize Foundation Masterclass Top Tips
  • Awards & prizes
    • RSL Christopher Bland Prize
    • RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction
    • RSL Literature Matters Awards
    • RSL Ondaatje Prize
    • The Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award
      • The Nation’s Favourite Second Novel
    • V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
    • Companions of Literature
    • The Benson Medal
  • News
    • Literature in Britain Today
  • Contact
  • Shop
  • Donate now
  • Join now
  • Log In
Home > The Literature Matters Hub > The Royal Society of Literature

The Literature Matters Hub

Hub post contributor: The Royal Society of Literature

Search the Hub
Literature In Britain Today

Literature In Britain Today

Contributed by: The Royal Society of Literature
Published: 19/09/2017
Research
Themes: whyLiteratureMatters

Our report following an Ipsos MORI poll of attitudes to literature across Great Britain.

Explore our Hub
Explore by theme
YoungWriter whywritingmatters whyreadingmatters whyLiteratureMatters T. S. Eliot Shakespeare RSLVolunteer RSLFellow poetry poem Jane Austen education Classic Literature
Explore by contributor
Vincent Otterbeck Victoria Cleland Tracy Chevalier The Royal Society of Literature Sophie Crabtree Safeerah Mughal Philip Pullman Michel Morpurgo Michael Rosen Marina Warner Kamila Shamsie Jonathan Coe Jennifer Obidike Hari Kunzru Gyan Shrivastava Grahame Davies Giulia Pelosi Elena Oderstone Caleb Femi Anna Trench A. L. Kennedy
Explore by category
Talk Research Poetry Interview Graphic Fiction Comment Audio Article

Support

Support

The Royal Society of Literature is a registered charity and receives no government funding. Discover how to donate and sponsor the RSL.

Fellows’ Reading Group Recommendations

Daisy Hay

Daisy Hay

Daisy Hay is the author of Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives and Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance, as well as a short book on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein which is due out in September. She is Senior Lecturer in English …


Daisy Hay recommends Fun Home, The Child that Books Built, Americanah, Sybil, Northanger Abbey.

Join the RSL Mailing List

Sign up to our monthly e newsletter to find out about forthcoming RSL events and news and information from other literary organisations.

News & Updates

  • Announcing the inaugural RSL Christopher Bland Prize
    Announcing the inaugural RSL Christopher Bland Prize

    September 28, 2018

    We are delighted to announce the £10,000 RSL Christopher Bland Prize to encourage and celebrate olde …

  • Maureen Duffy on the banning of ‘The Microcosm’ for Banned Books Week 2018
    Maureen Duffy on the banning of ‘The Microcosm’ for Banned Books Week 2018

    September 24, 2018

    Read a mini interview, in our online library, with RSL Vice President Maureen Duffy, about the banni …

  • RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019 – open for submissions
    RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019 – open for submissions

    September 18, 2018

    The £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019, for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, bes …

  • RSL Literature Matters Awards 2019 – open for submissions
    RSL Literature Matters Awards 2019 – open for submissions

    September 10, 2018

    We are delighted to announce that the RSL Literature Matters Awards 2019 are now open for submission …

Read all news

RSL on Twitter

  • 'Don’t let anyone tell you that your youth means that your perspective of the world is not valid.'— Chibundu Onuz… https://t.co/TXGDtswjin
    October 23, 2018
  • Time to get that literary project funded! @RSLiterature #LiteratureMatters Awards are now open for submissions unti… https://t.co/LVpF2rmvG1
    October 22, 2018
  • #PascalePetit @pascalepoet talked #Amazon #rainforest both real & metaphorical on @R3TheVerb: Into the Forest, & re… https://t.co/eRw0Xp6Xoo
    October 22, 2018
  • 'What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or… https://t.co/e1lBo98LjI
    October 22, 2018
  • @MichaelRosenYes We've got a transcript of your fantastic talk here: https://t.co/MWaskCtjsk
    October 22, 2018
  • Job Klaxon! @ForwardPrizes needs a manager for 12 months (Maternity cover). Surely one of the best jobs in (poetry)… https://t.co/MbagKKWAvi
    October 18, 2018
  • Two of the @RSLiterature 40 under 40 fellows are featured in our up-and-coming playwrights focus this month. Read C… https://t.co/FxfQqSspoH
    October 19, 2018
  • In my booklet 'Why Write? Why Read?' see: my talk for @RSLiterature which discusses this matter of how 'story' carr… https://t.co/JvnlNp4hMl
    October 21, 2018
  • 'Literature is not advertising; it is all the truths that we cannot take and sometimes all the beauty that we canno… https://t.co/lKF4O2EAER
    October 22, 2018
Join the conversation
  • Terms & conditions
  • Privacy Policy

The Royal Society of Literature, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA. Tel 020 7845 4678. Registered Charity No. 213-962

WEBSITE BY BOOKSWARM