The Literary Society and John Bailey, and in more recent times, Anthony Powell, Siegfried Sassoon, A. A. Milne, Kingsley Amis, John Gross, Antonia Fraser, Tom Stoppard, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Claire Tomalin, Charles Moore, Miriam Gross, V. S. Naipaul, Sebastian Faulks, Antony Beevor and P. D. James. The Literary Society has not obtruded on public notice, with the brief exception of its meetings and personalities in the middle of the twentieth century which were regularly documented in the Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters, in which are frequent vignettes of the members of the 1950s and 60s, including John Betjeman, T. S. Eliot, Malcolm Sargent, Alan Lascelles and
Peter Craven (literary critic) Heyward with whom he founded "Scripsi", a literary magazine which ran from 1981 to 1994. Peter Craven (literary critic) Peter Craven is an Australian literary critic and cultural studies writer. Craven has written for "The Age", "The Australian" and the "Australian Literary Review". His work has also appeared in "Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing", the "Times Literary Supplement" and "London Review of Books". Craven has been described as both a "literary hack" and "one of the most prolific, erudite and opinionated voices in Australian literary circles". In 2004 he was awarded the Pascall Prize for Australian Critic of the Year.