{"id":5150,"date":"2020-05-02T06:31:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T05:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/societyofauthors.org\/?page_id=5150"},"modified":"2023-06-15T14:18:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T13:18:16","slug":"estates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/societyofauthors.org\/estates\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary estates"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We manage the literary estates of many distinguished writers, including Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Philip Larkin and Rosamond Lehmann.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The income from this supports the work of the SoA.<\/span><\/p>

We handle a variety of rights from print permissions to licences for foreign language publication and major stage productions.<\/p>

If you are interested in acquiring\u00a0rights, including English language, translation, audio or film rights, please\u00a0<\/span>email Lisa Dowdeswell\u00a0<\/a>or call the Estates team on 020 3880 2230.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The estates we manage<\/a><\/h3>

An A-Z listing of our 58 literary estates.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Apply for permissions<\/a><\/h3>

Your first step to obtaining permission to reproduce material by the authors whose literary estates we represent.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The plays we represent<\/a><\/h3>

An A-Z listing of dramatists\/translators and the works for which we handle stage rights.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Apply for stage rights<\/a><\/h3>

We license amateur and professional stage productions of plays by a number of dramatists and translators, including Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot and Elisaveta Fen.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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