Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
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Occupation | Michelene Wandor | In recent years, MW
has taught creative writing in England, Italy, and Israel. She has held two Fellowships from the Royal Literary Fund
: at the University of Hertfordshire
in 2004-5 and... |
Occupation | Louise Page | In 1987 LP
became associate director of Theatre Calgary
, in Calgary. Its productions included her Golden Girls in the 1986-7 season and Beauty and the Beast in 1987-8. She has subsequently held Royal Literary Fund |
Occupation | Alison Fell | 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... |
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 |
Occupation | Anne Burke | AB
, who had previously worked as a governess in private families, planned when she received her first tiny grant from the Royal Literary Fund
to open a small school, but it is not clear... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Publishing | Susanna Watts | |
Publishing | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | Newman offered her cash for a second novel; but she mentioned no such book to the Royal Literary Fund
. |
Publishing | Selina Bunbury | SB
also wrote for the Religious Tract Society
and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
, and she contributed to the Christian Examiner and Cornhill Magazine. Much of this writing was anonymous. She penned... |
Publishing | Jean Rhys | Before the book was published, and while her husband was suffering his final illness, she was, as always, financially destitute. By February 1966, her editor Diana Athill
, her publisher André Deutsch
, and publisher... |
Publishing | Amelia Bristow | She included a dedication to her 152 subscribers. It reached a second edition the same year, and a fourth, as Elizabeth Allen; or, The Faithful Servant in 1832. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 572 |
Publishing | Harriet Smythies | HS
wrote a letter to the Royal Literary Fund
explaining the circumstances under which her publisher
stole and destroyed the manuscript she was writing for serialization in the London Journal. Cross, Nigel. The Common Writer. Cambridge University Press. 190 |
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