Royal Literary Fund

Despite the efforts of both Camilla and her mother , their family remained subject to financial woes until Camilla's marriage. By 1848 she received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund .

SD appealed to the Royal Literary Fund for financial aid of thirty pounds, while her husband , who himself had been receiving money from the fund since 1809 without her knowing it, tried to block...

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.

The marriage ended around 1810 in an acrimonious separation. SD left her husband, for what her supporters later said were sufficient reasons. Years later Jane Porter wrote that SDis known by the name...

SD told the Royal Literary Fund that she had written novels before her marriage under the name of Miss Granville, but they have not been traced.

Money was always tight throughout ME 's life. She began her writing career relying on her father's tiny pension to supplement her earnings from intermittent paid work, and it was a problem for her when...

In 1986 AF was a writing fellow at the New South Wales Institute of Technology in Sydney, . In 1998 she held the Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia , in the School...

The Critical Review praised this work as, unusually for a modern novel, unexceptionable reading for a child of either sex—an accolade which the author repeated years later to prove her worth to the Royal Literary Fund

PG issued a third novel this same year, The Fruitless Repentance; or, The History of Miss Kitty Le Fever (reprinted in facsimile by Garland in 1974). She told the Royal Literary Fund that...

It was advertised both before and at publication. The Dublin edition, the same year, also appeared as by a Lady; PG told the Royal Literary Fund that the publisher Joseph Johnson could testify that...

PG seems not to have claimed Jemima. A Novel, which was advertised by William Lane of the Minerva Press in March 1795 as by the Author of Zoraida.

PG told the Royal Literary Fund later that she had written a novel of this title for the credit and emolument of another hand dec[ease]d: the Mrs Phillips in question, who according to the title...

PG told the Royal Literary Fund this year that she had written novels, dramatic pieces, and several little periodical works. She also offered them Two Little Dramas to publish for the Fund's own benefit.

This year PG asked the Royal Literary Fund for financial help to transcribe illegible manuscripts which she might then be able to sell. She slightly underestimated the forty years she had been writing. She said...

PG applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund , which responded by giving her five guineas.