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Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Lennox | George Louis was a schoolboy at six (a weekly boarder). He began publishing in periodicals at about twelve, and made his mark as a prodigy. As he came of age, however, he seems to have... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helena Wells | They had four children. From HW
's appeals to the Royal Literary Fund
, it does not appear that her husband was a breadwinner. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Lennox | Her family relationships had always been uneasy. The choice of her daughter's school was apparently to be settled by her husband's despotick will. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Concluded)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 19 , No. 4, pp. 416-35. 426 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
's mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of a man calling himself Colonel Frederick, much of whose alleged life story the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doubts. Emily claimed through her mother descent from... |
death | Jane Loudon | She was buried with her husband in Kensal Green cemetery, where her grave was immediately covered with a sea of floral tributes sent by admirers. Her daughter later set up an urn in her... |
death | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
died some time after 7 March 1833, when she was still alive, though ill, and appealing apparently for the last time to the Royal Literary Fund
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
death | Margaret Croker | MC
died: the exact date is not known; but she is last heard of in this month, in her final application to the Royal Literary Fund
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Cultural formation | Selina Davenport | Setting out her ancestry for the Royal Literary Fund
when she was old and destitute, SD
emphasised her connections with the English gentry and even the nobility. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Cultural formation | Susanna Watts | SW
was a presumably white, middle-class Englishwoman. The application for her to the Royal Literary Fund
called her the last branch of a decayed gentleman's family Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Birth | Isabella Kelly | Isabella Fordyce (later IK
) was born in (she said) the ruined castle of Cairnburgh in the Hebrides. She suggested to the Royal Literary Fund
that she was born in 1758, then in 1848... |
Birth | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
was born in Shetland (which she calls Zetland): perhaps at Laxford or Laxfirth. She was baptised on the 11th. She seems to have told the Royal Literary Fund
that she was one year older. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. Miller, Bruce, and Morgan Miller. Email about Dorothea Primrose Campbell to Isobel Grundy. Walker, Constance. “Dorothea Primrose Campbell: A Newly Discovered Pseudonym, Poems and Tales”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 21 , No. 4, pp. 592-08. 598 |
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