Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Royal Literary Fund
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Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 | 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. |
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. |
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 | 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/. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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, and Morgan Miller. Email about Dorothea Primrose Campbell to Isobel Grundy. Walker, Constance. “Dorothea Primrose Campbell: A Newly Discovered Pseudonym, Poems and Tales”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 21 , No. 4, pp. 592-08. 598 |
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