Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Royal Literary Fund
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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. |
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 | Mary Matilda Betham | Some time after printing her Vignettes: in VerseMMB
was planning a book to be called Crow-Quill Flights. A certain incoherence of style in the preface (which is all that survives) suggests that it... |
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... |
Textual Production | Mary Ann Radcliffe | In 1871 the author of Manfroné (which was reprinted by Minerva Press
in 1819 and 1828) was identified in Notes and Queries as a different Mary Ann Radcliffe, who lived in Durham and was a... |
Travel | Emma Marshall | EM
visited Bordighera in Italy and Cannes in France, with a travel or holiday grant from the Royal Literary Fund
. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 242-5 |
Wealth and Poverty | Amelia Bristow | AB
first applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund
in the second year after her wedding, and received the relatively generous payment of ten pounds. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Burke | In a year in which it instituted a Committee of Enquiry and struck seventy-three applicants from its books (a number of them women), the Royal Literary Fund
made one more grant to AB
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. Batchelor, Jennie. “The Man of Genius and the Female Drudge: Labour, Gender, Authorship and the Royal Literary Fund”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV. |
Wealth and Poverty | Adelaide O'Keeffe | D. Laing
(in the same letter which reports on AOK
's early love-affair) appealed on her behalf to the Royal Literary Fund
with both warm sympathy and condescension. This letter-writer may have been the Rev... |
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