Royal Literary Fund

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...

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...

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 .

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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 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. In 1827 she told the...

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.

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 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...