Royal Literary Fund

Her title continues, being an Outline of the Religious and Domestic Habits of this most Interesting Nation, with explananatory notes. Her preface says she had collected subscribers, was proud of the names obtained...

It has not been traced. Edgeworth also reported: My father is afraid, though she has considerable talents, to recommend her to Johnson , lest she should not answer. The Edgeworths were apparently not prepared to...

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.

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...

She was proud to be the second woman ever elected to the committee of the Royal Literary Fund .

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.

When applying to the Royal Literary Fund for money, HW told them that her work had been well received by the Monthly Review, Anti-Jacobin, British Critic, and Gentleman's Magazine: some of...

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...

GA was appointed to a two-year Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at the University of Newcastle .

In the summer of 1865, when the Moodies were again facing poverty, SM finally received recognition for her work in the form of a £60 grant from the Royal Literary Fund .

Browne's applications to the Royal Literary Fund survive in the Fund's archive (available on microfilm), and the National Library of Ireland has two letters she wrote in 1844. The National Library of Scotland holds several...

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 .

IK told the Royal Literary Fund that she had written part of a historical novel, but found it hard to complete because of her sense that literary styles had changed.

After 1812: SSW , now a teacher, returned to her early interest in children's books, and produced, she told the Royal Literary Funda vast number of books, of which she can pretend no merit...

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...