Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook.
Royal Literary Fund
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Publishing | Susanna Watts | |
Publishing | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | Newman offered her cash for a second novel; but she mentioned no such book to the Royal Literary Fund
. |
Publishing | Selina Bunbury | SB
also wrote for the Religious Tract Society
and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
, and she contributed to the Christian Examiner and Cornhill Magazine. Much of this writing was anonymous. She penned... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Helme | EH
began publishing in the 1780s to supplement her family's income. She issued ten novels with her name or some other means of (at least later) identification, three translations, and a number of didactic and... |
Author summary | Phebe Gibbes | 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... |
Occupation | John Oliver Hobbes | Hobbes volunteered for a number of causes, giving talks in honour of friends, at universities, and for charitable and political causes. After her return from the USA in 1906, she gave talks at the Imperial Industries Club |
Occupation | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | 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. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Occupation | Anne Burke | AB
, who had previously worked as a governess in private families, planned when she received her first tiny grant from the Royal Literary Fund
to open a small school, but it is not clear... |
Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake
... |
Occupation | Michelene Wandor | In recent years, MW
has taught creative writing in England, Italy, and Israel. She has held two Fellowships from the Royal Literary Fund
: at the University of Hertfordshire
in 2004-5 and... |
Occupation | Louise Page | In 1987 LP
became associate director of Theatre Calgary
, in Calgary. Its productions included her Golden Girls in the 1986-7 season and Beauty and the Beast in 1987-8. She has subsequently held Royal Literary Fund |
Occupation | Alison Fell | 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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Selina Bunbury | Other factors besides ill health affected SB
's writing and earning ability during her last years. In an appeal to the Royal Literary Fund
in 1881, she cites the changing tastes of publishers and the... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Burke | It is dedicated to the Duchess of York
, and was advertised in March as soon to appear. The only copy known to survive is at the University of Virginia
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 666 English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Burke | The novel was reviewed the following year. The subscription list, which draws on people with addresses in London, Scotland, and Wales, includes a number of members of the nobility. AB
's life... |
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