Royal Literary Fund

PG chose anonymity for what seems to be her next novel, the epistolary History of Eliza Musgrove.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

The marriage ended around 1810 in an acrimonious separation. SD left her husband, for what her supporters later said were sufficient reasons. Years later Jane Porter wrote that SDis known by the name...

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.

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 .

She seems to have inherited poverty from her father, following in his footsteps as an applicant to the Royal Literary Fund . She received a grant from the Fund in 1818, and made further applications...

MC died: the exact date is not known; but she is last heard of in this month, in her final application to the Royal Literary Fund .

HC applied (with a letter of recommendation from William Frend ) for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund .

That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure...