Royal Literary Fund

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...

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 (which had been déclassé by her father's marrying down...

It has not been traced. Edgeworth also reported: My father is afraid, though she has considerable talents, to recommend her to Johnson , lest she should not answer. The Edgeworths were apparently not prepared to...

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...

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 ...

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.

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...

RMR suffered from long illnesses and recurring depression. She had just risen from a bed of sickness when she wrote a long account of herself for the Royal Literary Fund , on 19 November 1831.

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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.

ATP appealed for money, apparently for the first time, to the Royal Literary Fund , which made her a grant of £20.