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 | Amelia Bristow | AB
again applied to the Royal Literary Fund
and received twenty pounds, as she had done two years previously; this is her last known application. |
Publishing | Amelia Bristow | She included a dedication to her 152 subscribers. It reached a second edition the same year, and a fourth, as Elizabeth Allen; or, The Faithful Servant in 1832. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 572 |
Publishing | Amelia Bristow | Her title continues, being an Outline of the Religious and Domestic Habits of this most Interesting Nation, with explananatory notes. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 621 |
Health | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
had some kind of general breakdown of health whose beginning Ernest Betham dates to about 1818 (though she seems to have been well when her Vignettes: in Verse appeared this year). Robert Southey
reported... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Matilda Betham | She applied to the Royal Literary Fund
for assistance because of her poverty. Her application said she was paying five shillings a week in rent, and could reduce that to two shillings if she was... |
Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | Some time after printing her Vignettes: in VerseMMB
was planning a book to be called Crow-Quill Flights. A certain incoherence of style in the preface (which is all that survives) suggests that it... |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Bentley | The Royal Literary Fund
paid EB
fifteen guineas (very generous according to its usually class-based scale of awards). Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Reception | Phyllis Bentley | She was proud to be the second woman ever elected to the committee of the Royal Literary Fund
. Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz. 258-9 |
Wealth and Poverty | Frances Bellerby | FB
's poverty (which had made Charles Causley
and others urge her to apply for help to the Royal Literary Fund
) was alleviated by a small pension from the Civil List
for services to literature. Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press. 39 |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Bannerman | These bereavements also deprived her of the means of support. (Her mother had had a life annuity; no pension was forthcoming on the death of her brother.) Her friends attempted to find her patrons or... |
Reception | Gillian Allnutt | GA
was appointed to a two-year Royal Literary Fund
Fellowship at the University of Newcastle
. “Gillian Allnutt”. The Royal Literary Fund: Former Fellows. |
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