Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press.
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Wealth and Poverty | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
asked the Royal Literary Fund
for fifteen pounds with which to pay her baker's bill; the Fund recorded a payment of fifteen guineas to her this year. Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press. 4 Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
's mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of a man calling himself Colonel Frederick, much of whose alleged life story the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doubts. Emily claimed through her mother descent from... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
's grandfather, who committed public suicide by shooting himself in the west porch of Westminster Abbey on 1 February 1797, when he was a little past seventy, was Colonel Frederick or Frederic (called by... |
death | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
died some time after 7 March 1833, when she was still alive, though ill, and appealing apparently for the last time to the Royal Literary Fund
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Emily Frederick Clark | The title of this work changed several times during the course of composition. This book must have been the Moral Tales she mentioned to the Royal Literary Fund
in 1811 as her fifth work, then... |
Textual Production | Emily Frederick Clark | In 1812 EFC
told the Royal Literary Fund
that she was working on Rosamond, or Love in Sicily (presumably a novel, not known to have been published); a few years later she was proposing to... |
Reception | Emily Frederick Clark | From EFC
's letters to the Royal Literary Fund
it would seem that she entertained a very modest estimate of her own talents. Late in her career, for example, she calls her own works very... |
Textual Features | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | One of the Royal Literary Fund
's forms gives this novel the title A Zetland Tale. It is indeed a National Tale, comparable to those of Scott, Christian Isobel Johnstone
, and Sydney Morgan
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Publishing | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | Newman offered her cash for a second novel; but she mentioned no such book to the Royal Literary Fund
. |
Birth | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
was born in Shetland (which she calls Zetland): perhaps at Laxford or Laxfirth. She was baptised on the 11th. She seems to have told the Royal Literary Fund
that she was one year older. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. Miller, Bruce, and Morgan Miller. Email about Dorothea Primrose Campbell to Isobel Grundy. Walker, Constance. “Dorothea Primrose Campbell: A Newly Discovered Pseudonym, Poems and Tales”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 21 , No. 4, pp. 592-08. 598 |
Wealth and Poverty | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
had not worked for over a year and was destitute. She applied for help to the Royal Literary Fund
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Burke | AB
appealed to the Royal Literary Fund
for help in her real and severe Distress of a material kind. They responded (after an intermediate reminder) with a grant of five guineas on 15 November. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. Batchelor, Jennie. “The Man of Genius and the Female Drudge: Labour, Gender, Authorship and the Royal Literary Fund”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV. |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Burke | AB
was once again in dire straits for money, as she told the Royal Literary Fund
in a letter which she was able to deliver only after borrowing clothes in which to do so. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Burke | AB
, on a fresh appeal to the Royal Literary Fund
, was paid five guineas but warned not to expect any further payments in the future. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Burke | In a year in which it instituted a Committee of Enquiry and struck seventy-three applicants from its books (a number of them women), the Royal Literary Fund
made one more grant to AB
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. Batchelor, Jennie. “The Man of Genius and the Female Drudge: Labour, Gender, Authorship and the Royal Literary Fund”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV. |
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