Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Royal Literary Fund
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Burke | Four years later she wrote to the Royal Literary Fund
, her potential lifeline, of her fears that her lovely and innocent son, who if properly educated, would, I am sure, prove a bright man... |
| Occupation | Anne Burke | AB
, who had previously worked as a governess in private families, planned when she received her first tiny grant from the Royal Literary Fund
to open a small school, but it is not clear... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Burke | It is dedicated to the Duchess of York
, and was advertised in March as soon to appear. The only copy known to survive is at the University of Virginia
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 666 English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Selina Bunbury | SB
helped to support various family members through her writings: most of her applications to the Royal Literary Fund
cite the needs of ill or orphaned sisters, nieces, and nephews as dependents on her. She... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Selina Bunbury | Because of her ill health, she found it difficult to earn enough money to support herself, as she testified in a letter written on 31 May 1881 to the Royal Literary Fund
. Fyfe, Aileen. Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain. University of Chicago Press. 222-3 |
| Publishing | Selina Bunbury | SB
also wrote for the Religious Tract Society
and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
, and she contributed to the Christian Examiner and Cornhill Magazine. Much of this writing was anonymous. She penned... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Selina Bunbury | In April 1856, SB
successfully appealed to the Royal Literary Fund
to help finance her trips to Finland (which was currently a Russian territory) and possibly to Russia proper as well. Fyfe, Aileen. Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain. University of Chicago Press. 251 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Selina Bunbury | Other factors besides ill health affected SB
's writing and earning ability during her last years. In an appeal to the Royal Literary Fund
in 1881, she cites the changing tastes of publishers and the... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Frances Browne | Despite an annual Civil List
pension of a hundred pounds, and payments totalling £120 from the Royal Literary Fund
over the past seven years, FB
declared bankruptcy. McLean, Thomas. “Arms and the Circassian Woman: Frances Browne’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Star of Attéghéi</span>”;. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 41 , No. 3, West Virginia University Press, pp. 295-18. 298, 315n11 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Frances Browne | She was never well off, though she sought, and was granted, financial patronage from a number of sources. Early in her career Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
, the third marquess of Lansdowne, made Browne a generous payment... |
| Reception | Frances Browne | Browne's applications to the Royal Literary Fund
survive in the Fund's archive (available on microfilm), and the National Library of Ireland
has two letters she wrote in 1844. The National Library of Scotland
holds several... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Mary Ann Browne | MAB
(now Gray, not yet one year married) applied to the Royal Literary Fund
for money, saying that her husband had been promised a government post which had not materialised. They paid her forty pounds. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Amelia Bristow | AB
first applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund
in the second year after her wedding, and received the relatively generous payment of ten pounds. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
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