Royal Literary Fund

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

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...

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...

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 rendered her destitute, and...

PG chose anonymity for what seems to be her next novel, the epistolary History of Eliza Musgrove.

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.

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...

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...

The Critical Review praised this work as, unusually for a modern novel, unexceptionable reading for a child of either sex—an accolade which the author repeated years later to prove her worth to the Royal Literary Fund

PG issued a third novel this same year, The Fruitless Repentance; or, The History of Miss Kitty Le Fever (reprinted in facsimile by Garland in 1974). She told the Royal Literary Fund that...

It was advertised both before and at publication. The Dublin edition, the same year, also appeared as by a Lady; PG told the Royal Literary Fund that the publisher Joseph Johnson could testify that...

PG seems not to have claimed Jemima. A Novel, which was advertised by William Lane of the Minerva Press in March 1795 as by the Author of Zoraida.

PG told the Royal Literary Fund later that she had written a novel of this title for the credit and emolument of another hand dec[ease]d: the Mrs Phillips in question, who according to the title...

PG told the Royal Literary Fund this year that she had written novels, dramatic pieces, and several little periodical works. She also offered them Two Little Dramas to publish for the Fund's own benefit.

This year PG asked the Royal Literary Fund for financial help to transcribe illegible manuscripts which she might then be able to sell. She slightly underestimated the forty years she had been writing. She said...