Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. 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 |
Wealth and Poverty | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
had not worked for over a year and was destitute. She applied for help to the Royal Literary Fund
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Textual Features | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | One of the Royal Literary Fund
's forms gives this novel the title A Zetland Tale. It is indeed a National Tale, comparable to those of Scott, Christian Isobel Johnstone
, and Sydney Morgan
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Publishing | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | Newman offered her cash for a second novel; but she mentioned no such book to the Royal Literary Fund
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
's grandfather, who committed public suicide by shooting himself in the west porch of Westminster Abbey on 1 February 1797, when he was a little past seventy, was Colonel Frederick or Frederic (called by... |
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/. |
Textual Production | Emily Frederick Clark | The title of this work changed several times during the course of composition. This book must have been the Moral Tales she mentioned to the Royal Literary Fund
in 1811 as her fifth work, then... |
Textual Production | Emily Frederick Clark | In 1812 EFC
told the Royal Literary Fund
that she was working on Rosamond, or Love in Sicily (presumably a novel, not known to have been published); a few years later she was proposing to... |
Reception | Emily Frederick Clark | From EFC
's letters to the Royal Literary Fund
it would seem that she entertained a very modest estimate of her own talents. Late in her career, for example, she calls her own works very... |
Wealth and Poverty | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
asked the Royal Literary Fund
for fifteen pounds with which to pay her baker's bill; the Fund recorded a payment of fifteen guineas to her this year. Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press. 4 Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Catherine Cookson | That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure... |
Wealth and Poverty | Harriet Corp | HC
applied (with a letter of recommendation from William Frend
) for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
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. |
Wealth and Poverty | Margaret Croker | She seems to have inherited poverty from her father, following in his footsteps as an applicant to the Royal Literary Fund
. She received a grant from the Fund in 1818, and made further applications... |
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