Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
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Wealth and Poverty | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | SSW
, facing prison for a debt of one pound nine shillings, incurred when a window got broken, told the Royal Literary Fund
, I am of that sex whose earnings at the best of... |
Health | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | The Royal Literary Fund
supplied SSW
with five pounds to pay for an operation on the tumour in her breast. |
Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | |
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. |
Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | Among works that SSW
claimed when corresponding, late in life, with the Royal Literary Fund
were a Life of Alfred the Great and a work entitled Romance and Reason in two volumes. |
Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | After 1812: SSW
, now a teacher, returned to her early interest in children's books, and produced, she told the Royal Literary Funda vast number of books, of which she can pretend no merit... |
Textual Production | A. Woodfin | The anonymous epistolary novel The History of Eliza Musgrove, published by June 1769, is ascribed to AW
in some sources; but Phebe Gibbes
claimed it as her own work in a letter to the... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Julia Young | MJY
applied for financial assistance to the Royal Literary Fund
. Her publisher, she said, owed her seventy pounds but had paid her only ten per cent of it. Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18. letter 1 |
Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | A three-volume, anonymous Minerva
novel, The Family Party, 1791, has also been widely ascribed to MJY
since Dorothy Blakey
first made the attribution in 1939 from a Minerva
catalogue of 1814. Blakey, Dorothy. The Minerva Press 1790-1820. Oxford University Press, p. 337 pp. 153 |
Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | MJY
reported to the Royal Literary Fund
that she had selected and translated a collection of extracts from works by Voltaire
: Voltairiana, 1805, in four volumes. Batchelor, Jennie. Women’s Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830. Manchester University Press. 161-2 Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | Writing to the Royal Literary Fund
, MJY
was predictably humble and self-depreciating about her writing. She said her novels were riddled with numerous typographical errors made by their publishers, which she was powerless to... |
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