Royal Literary Society

Charlotte Ramsay (later CL ) was born, in the British possession of Gibraltar: not, as had been supposed, an only child, but the youngest of five.

Jane Webb (later JL ) was born at Kitwell House, near Halesowen (which was then a town in Worcestershire, but is now a part of Birmingham) She was her parents' only surviving child...

EH fell ill in 1800 with, as she told the charitable Royal Literary Society three years later, a complicated, and hopeless, dropsical and liver complaint.

EH wrote to the Royal Literary Society requesting financial help, saying that illness had undermined the literary earnings which had materially contributed to supporting her family for seventeen years.