Raven, James. “Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, pp. 14-117.
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Phebe Gibbes | The anonymous Zoraida; or, Village Annals. A Novel appeared; though the English Short Title Catalogue and other sources ascribe it to Anne Hughes
, PG
later told the Royal Literary Fund
she had written it. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 380 |
| Textual Production | Phebe Gibbes | PG
reported to the Royal Literary Fund
her unsubduable aspiration . . . to perfect before she dies, a work that will evince, she has not lived in vain. She had such a work on... |
| Author summary | Phebe Gibbes | PG
was an eighteenth-century novelist (of great gifts but extreme obscurity), who also wrote (from financial need) drama and periodical essays, and projected a sociological study of the lower classes. Her canon is, like most... |
| Literary responses | Phebe Gibbes | 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 |
| Textual Production | Phebe Gibbes | 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). Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, p. xi - lvii. xiv n16 |
| Publishing | Phebe Gibbes | 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... |
| Textual Production | Phebe Gibbes | 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. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 641 The near illegibility... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Ann Gomersall | After her husband's death left her without support, she managed for more than eight years with her work, and some help from friends. But at last affliction, infirmity, and age Gomersall, Ann. Creation, A Poem. Printed for the author, and sold by Black, Young, and Young, London; J. Rowden, Newport. prelims |
| Wealth and Poverty | Matilda Hays | The year after Proctor's death, MH
applied to the Royal Literary Fund
for a pension. She cited her need, her labours on behalf of [her] own sex, and damage to her health inflicted by her... |
| Author summary | Elizabeth Helme | EH
began publishing in the 1780s to supplement her family's income. She issued ten novels with her name or some other means of (at least later) identification, three translations, and a number of didactic and... |
| Occupation | John Oliver Hobbes | Hobbes volunteered for a number of causes, giving talks in honour of friends, at universities, and for charitable and political causes. After her return from the USA in 1906, she gave talks at the Imperial Industries Club |
| Wealth and Poverty | Fanny Holcroft | In 1806 Charles Lamb
reported that the Holcroft family were reduced to poverty. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | A contemporary note in the Harvard
copy of The History of Miss Sommerville, published anonymously (as a Lady) in 1769, erroneously attributes it to Mrs Inchbauld. This, however, is too early a... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | |
| Reception | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | By 16 November 1888, she had also received a grant of £100 from the Royal Literary Fund
. Her son Oscar Wilde
helped her to secure both pensions. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 222 Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell. 292 |
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