Royal Literary Fund

There was published by W. Mason in two volumes The Spectre of Lanmere Abbey, or The Mystery of the Blue and Silver Bag; A Romance, with SSW 's name.

Years later she told the Royal Literary Fund that as a young lady she used to read aloud to Lady Charlotte Finch (1725-96), who in old age was blind.

Among works that SSW claimed when corresponding, late in life, with the Royal Literary Fund were a Life of Alfred the Great and a work entitled Romance and Reason in two volumes.

After 1812: SSW , now a teacher, returned to her early interest in children's books, and produced, she told the Royal Literary Funda vast number of books, of which she can pretend no merit...

SSW , in great distress, first received financial aid—five pounds—from the Royal Literary Fund .

SSW , facing prison for a debt of one pound nine shillings, incurred when a window got broken, told the Royal Literary Fund , I am of that sex whose earnings at the best of...

The anonymous epistolary novel The History of Eliza Musgrove, published by June 1769, is ascribed to AW in some sources; but Phebe Gibbes claimed it as her own work in a letter to the...

MJY applied for financial assistance to the Royal Literary Fund . Her publisher, she said, owed her seventy pounds but had paid her only ten per cent of it.

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. This seems...

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.

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...