Royal Literary Fund

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Wealth and Poverty Phebe Gibbes
PG received £10 from the Royal Literary Fund .
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Wealth and Poverty Phebe Gibbes
PG again received £10 from the Royal Literary Fund .
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Wealth and Poverty Phebe Gibbes
PG was one of those whose applications this year to the Royal Literary Fund were rejected as questionable.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
PG chose anonymity for what seems to be her next novel, the epistolary History of Eliza Musgrove.
Some reference sources attribute this work to Mrs A. Woodfin , but PG told the Royal Literary Fund
Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
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.
Raven, James. “Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, pp. 14-117.
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Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
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...
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...
Wealth and Poverty Ann Gomersall
After her husband's death left her without support, she managed for more than eight years with her work, and some help from friends. But at last affliction, infirmity, and age
Gomersall, Ann. Creation, A Poem. Printed for the author, and sold by Black, Young, and Young, London; J. Rowden, Newport.
prelims
rendered her destitute, and...
Wealth and Poverty Matilda Hays
The year after Proctor's death, MH applied to the Royal Literary Fund for a pension. She cited her need, her labours on behalf of [her] own sex, and damage to her health inflicted by her...
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...
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
Wealth and Poverty Fanny Holcroft
In 1806 Charles Lamb reported that the Holcroft family were reduced to poverty.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The next few years brought them close to starvation. FH waited until after her father's death before seeking aid from the Royal Literary Fund
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
A contemporary note in the Harvard copy of The History of Miss Sommerville, published anonymously (as a Lady) in 1769, erroneously attributes it to Mrs Inchbauld. This, however, is too early a...
Wealth and Poverty Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
By the time JFLW moved to Oakley Street, her finances were greatly reduced. A day after arriving at the new house, she asked to borrow a sovereign from Constance . Proper household management became difficult...
Reception Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
By 16 November 1888, she had also received a grant of £100 from the Royal Literary Fund . Her son Oscar Wilde helped her to secure both pensions.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray.
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Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
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