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Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | A three-volume, anonymous Minerva
novel, The Family Party, 1791, has also been widely ascribed to MJY
since Dorothy Blakey
first made the attribution in 1939 from a Minerva
catalogue of 1814. Blakey, Dorothy. The Minerva Press 1790-1820. Oxford University Press, p. 337 pp. 153 |
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... |
Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | MJY
reported to the Royal Literary Fund
that she had selected and translated a collection of extracts from works by Voltaire
: Voltairiana, 1805, in four volumes. Batchelor, Jennie. Women’s Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830. Manchester University Press. 161-2 Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Phebe Gibbes | PG
told the Royal Literary Fund
later that she had written a novel of this title for the credit and emolument of another hand dec[ease]d: the Mrs Phillips in question, who according to the title... |
Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | Writing to the Royal Literary Fund
, MJY
was predictably humble and self-depreciating about her writing. She said her novels were riddled with numerous typographical errors made by their publishers, which she was powerless to... |
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. |
Textual Production | Phebe Gibbes | PG
told the Royal Literary Fund
this year that she had written novels, dramatic pieces, and several little periodical works. She also offered them Two Little Dramas to publish for the Fund's own benefit. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Textual Production | Phebe Gibbes | This year PG
asked the Royal Literary Fund
for financial help to transcribe illegible manuscripts which she might then be able to sell. She slightly underestimated the forty years she had been writing. She said... |
Textual Production | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | To the Royal Literary Fund
she boasted the following March, both about her patronage from the marchioness and the fact that this book had brought her thirty pounds. But she still needed to ask for... |
Textual Production | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | HRM
sent two sets of recent works (it is not known which) to the Royal Literary Fund
, saying she had completed them in 1825-6 while recovering from a recent illness. When after her husband's... |
Textual Production | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | HRM
mentioned to the Royal Literary Fund
on 13 March 1830 several works in progress which she probably never finished. There were three volumes of moral and entertaining tales founded on fact, and another work... |
Textual Production | Eliza Parsons | Besides EP
's surviving letters to the Royal Literary Fund
, OCLC WorldCat lists two undated letters of hers to Sir James Bland Burges
and one of 1801 to William Pitt the Younger
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Emily Frederick Clark | The title of this work changed several times during the course of composition. This book must have been the Moral Tales she mentioned to the Royal Literary Fund
in 1811 as her fifth work, then... |
Textual Production | Eliza Parsons | According to EP
in one of her pleas for help to the Royal Literary Fund
, she was compelled by dire necessity to become an Author and her sixty-five volumes of fiction were produced under... |
Textual Production | Emily Frederick Clark | In 1812 EFC
told the Royal Literary Fund
that she was working on Rosamond, or Love in Sicily (presumably a novel, not known to have been published); a few years later she was proposing to... |
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