Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Royal Literary Fund
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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 | 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... |
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... |
Health | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | The Royal Literary Fund
supplied SSW
with five pounds to pay for an operation on the tumour in her breast. |
Health | Regina Maria Roche | RMR
suffered from long illnesses and recurring depression. Todd, Janet, editor. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers, 1660-1800. Rowman and Allanheld. |
Health | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | Her health continued to be bad: impaired, said one of her succession of doctors, by her privations. Various physicians wrote to the Royal Literary Fund
about her ailments: her confinement to her room for six... |
Health | Alicia Tyndal Palmer | ATP
made her last contact with the Royal Literary Fund
, from Hammersmith, after a severe illness. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Health | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
had some kind of general breakdown of health whose beginning Ernest Betham dates to about 1818 (though she seems to have been well when her Vignettes: in Verse appeared this year). Robert Southey
reported... |
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 |
Literary responses | Adelaide O'Keeffe | Despite her careful observance of courtesy, AOK
's proposals did not meet with approval (or, probably, with serious consideration) at the Royal Literary Fund
meeting to which she submitted her letter. The draft of the... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Burke | It is dedicated to the Duchess of York
, and was advertised in March as soon to appear. The only copy known to survive is at the University of Virginia
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 666 English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Burke | The novel was reviewed the following year. The subscription list, which draws on people with addresses in London, Scotland, and Wales, includes a number of members of the nobility. AB
's life... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Selina Bunbury | In April 1856, SB
successfully appealed to the Royal Literary Fund
to help finance her trips to Finland (which was currently a Russian territory) and possibly to Russia proper as well. Fyfe, Aileen. Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain. University of Chicago Press. 251 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Selina Bunbury | Other factors besides ill health affected SB
's writing and earning ability during her last years. In an appeal to the Royal Literary Fund
in 1881, she cites the changing tastes of publishers and the... |
Occupation | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | Years later she told the Royal Literary Fund
that as a young lady she used to read aloud to Lady Charlotte Finch
(1725-96), who in old age was blind. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
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