Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Textual Production | Isabella Kelly | IK
, as Catherine Harris, published with Minerva Press
an epistolary novel, Edwardina, dedicated to |
Textual Production | Isabella Kelly | IK
told the Royal Literary Fund
that she had written part of a historical novel, but found it hard to complete because of her sense that literary styles had changed. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Isabella Kelly | From the time of her first husband's death, IK
lived in poverty. Henrietta Fordyce
, whose life she wrote, died without finishing the will in which she intended to leave her a bequest. IK
was... |
Textual Production | Isabella Kelly | IK
told the Royal Literary Fund
that she had written ten novels. But it seems she underestimated: in addition to the eleven mentioned below, she listed an untraced title (not listed by OCLC or The... |
Textual Production | Isabella Kelly | IK
told the Royal Literary Fund
in 1832 that she had written an Epitome of General Knowledge, published by subscription by a non-London publisher, a French Grammar, and Literary Information, written for... |
Wealth and Poverty | Charlotte Lennox | CF turned for help in her dire financial predicament to the recently founded Royal Literary Fund
. They paid her ten guineas then, twelve guineas to send her son to Virginia, and further payments. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 317-44. 328 Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Lennox | George Louis was a schoolboy at six (a weekly boarder). He began publishing in periodicals at about twelve, and made his mark as a prodigy. As he came of age, however, he seems to have... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Lennox | Her family relationships had always been uneasy. The choice of her daughter's school was apparently to be settled by her husband's despotick will. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Concluded)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 19 , No. 4, pp. 416-35. 426 |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Linskill | After months of steadily deepening poverty, ML
wrote to Thomas Carlyle
, whom she greatly admired, asking him to obtain her financial assistance from the Royal Literary Fund
. Stamp, Cordelia. Mary Linskill. Caedmon of Whitby. 89 Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son. 26 |
Wealth and Poverty | Jane Loudon | John Claudius Loudon
was comfortably off at the time of his marriage, though he had lost a lot of money around 1815 from the mismanagement of a banker. He lost money again with an over-ambitious... |
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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Jane Loudon | Even after the success of The Mummy she found it hard to manage her money, and first applied to the Royal Literary Fund
for help in February 1829 Ashfield, Andrew. Email: Notes on Susannah Dobson (1738-1795) and Jane Webb 1800-1858. |
Wealth and Poverty | Hannah Lynch | HL
first appealed for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund
in 1895. On 14 February that year Walter Besant
wrote a letter on her behalf which emphasized her ill health and friendless condition; Mabel Robinson |
Wealth and Poverty | Katharine S. Macquoid | KSM
was granted a pension on the Civil List
when she was seventy. Although it later went up from £50 to £120 she still found it hard to make ends meet, and several times applied... |
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