Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Royal Literary Fund
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Wealth and Poverty | Susanna Watts | An application to the Royal Literary Fund
was secretly made on SW
's behalf by a relation of Elizabeth Heyrick
(perhaps her mother) and the publisher Richard Phillips
; they got her a grant of... |
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 |
Publishing | Susanna Watts | |
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 | 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
... |
Publishing | Harriet Smythies | HS
wrote a letter to the Royal Literary Fund
explaining the circumstances under which her publisher
stole and destroyed the manuscript she was writing for serialization in the London Journal. Cross, Nigel. The Common Writer. Cambridge University Press. 190 |
Wealth and Poverty | Regina Maria Roche | RMR
was in such financial straits that in 1827 (after her husband was a second time declared bankrupt) she applied for help to the Royal Literary Fund
. They gave her £20 then and the... |
Health | Regina Maria Roche | RMR
suffered from long illnesses and recurring depression. Todd, Janet, editor. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers, 1660-1800. Rowman and Allanheld. |
Publishing | Jean Rhys | Before the book was published, and while her husband was suffering his final illness, she was, as always, financially destitute. By February 1966, her editor Diana Athill
, her publisher André Deutsch
, and publisher... |
Textual Production | Mary Ann Radcliffe | In 1871 the author of Manfroné (which was reprinted by Minerva Press
in 1819 and 1828) was identified in Notes and Queries as a different Mary Ann Radcliffe, who lived in Durham and was a... |
Wealth and Poverty | Eliza Parsons | EP
applied for help to the recently founded Literary Fund
(later the Royal Literary Fund), detailing the various financial accidents and reverses that had so far befallen her. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Eliza Parsons | Attempting to get up a subscription which would make her next novel a more lucrative prospect, she confronted, like many middle-class women in financial difficulty, the fact that their claim to respect would be judged... |
Textual Production | Eliza Parsons | Besides EP
's surviving letters to the Royal Literary Fund
, OCLC WorldCat lists two undated letters of hers to Sir James Bland Burges
and one of 1801 to William Pitt the Younger
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Eliza Parsons | According to EP
in one of her pleas for help to the Royal Literary Fund
, she was compelled by dire necessity to become an Author and her sixty-five volumes of fiction were produced under... |
Wealth and Poverty | Alicia Tyndal Palmer | ATP
appealed for money, apparently for the first time, to the Royal Literary Fund
, which made her a grant of £20. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
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