Royal Literary Fund

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Birth Isabella Kelly
Isabella Fordyce (later IK ) was born in (she said) the ruined castle of Cairnburgh in the Hebrides.
She suggested to the Royal Literary Fund that she was born in 1758, then in 1848...
Birth Dorothea Primrose Campbell
DPC was born in Shetland (which she calls Zetland): perhaps at Laxford or Laxfirth. She was baptised on the 11th.
She seems to have told the Royal Literary Fund that she was one year older.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Miller, Bruce et al. Email about Dorothea Primrose Campbell to Isobel Grundy. 26 June 2003.
Walker, Constance. “Dorothea Primrose Campbell: A Newly Discovered Pseudonym, Poems and Tales”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 4, Nov. 2014, pp. 592-08.
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Cultural formation Selina Davenport
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.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Cultural formation Susanna Watts
SW was a presumably white, middle-class Englishwoman. The application for her to the Royal Literary Fund called her the last branch of a decayed gentleman's family
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
(which had been déclassé by her father's marrying down...
death Jane Loudon
She was buried with her husband in Kensal Green cemetery, where her grave was immediately covered with a sea of floral tributes sent by admirers. Her daughter later set up an urn in her...
death Margaret Croker
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 .
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
death Emily Frederick Clark
EFC died some time after 7 March 1833, when she was still alive, though ill, and appealing apparently for the last time to the Royal Literary Fund .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Nugent Bromley
ENB says nothing about her mother in her Royal Literary Fund application (the only source of information about her life or background).
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Burke
Four years later she wrote to the Royal Literary Fund , her potential lifeline, of her fears that her lovely and innocent son, who if properly educated, would, I am sure, prove a bright man...
Family and Intimate relationships Adelaide O'Keeffe
When AOK was eighty it was reported that in her youth she was actually engaged to be married, when her blind father so earnestly craved her undivided time and attention, that she gave it up...
Family and Intimate relationships Selina Davenport
The marriage ended around 1810 in an acrimonious separation. SD left her husband, for what her supporters later said were sufficient reasons.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Years later Jane Porter wrote that SDis known by the name...
Family and Intimate relationships Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
The marriage appears to have been childless. By late 1824, ten years after his publication, Isaac Mosse had undergone two years during which illness succeeded illness.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
He had also been a victim of commercial losses...
Family and Intimate relationships Helena Wells
They had four children. From HW 's appeals to the Royal Literary Fund , it does not appear that her husband was a breadwinner.
Family and Intimate relationships Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
Sitting beside his coffin, she wrote emotionally to the Royal Literary Fund : the life of Isaac Mose was without a stain. . . . Let me lay him decently in the grave. They duly...
Family and Intimate relationships Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
On 13 March 1830 (just after applying to the Royal Literary Fund on her own account) she sent them some manuscripts of her husband's, hoping that they might arrange for publication.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Timeline

1790: The Royal Literary Fund was established in...

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1790

The Royal Literary Fund was established in London by David Williamsto relieve literary men of all nations; it made many small grants to women writers.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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, 31 Mar. 2005.

1984: The Authors' Foundation was set up to make...

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1984

The Authors' Foundation was set up to make awards to writers: it marked the centenary of the Society of Authors and had help from the Royal Literary Fund ; it had Antonia Fraser and Michael Holroyd

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