Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Wealth and Poverty | Camilla Crosland | 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
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 32 Crosland, Newton. Rambles Round My Life. E. W. Allen. 363 |
Wealth and Poverty | Selina Davenport | 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... |
Cultural formation | Selina Davenport | 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. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Selina Davenport | The marriage ended around 1810 in an acrimonious separation. SD
left her husband, for what her supporters later said were sufficient reasons. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Textual Production | Selina Davenport | 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. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Margiad Evans | 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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Phebe Gibbes | |
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. 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. 41 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... |
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