Royal Literary Fund

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 . This is...

Years later she told the Royal Literary Fund that as a young lady she used to read aloud to Lady Charlotte Finch (1725-96), who in old age was blind.

In 1986 AF was a writing fellow at the New South Wales Institute of Technology in Sydney, . In 1998 she held the Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia , in the School...

In 1987 LP became associate director of Theatre Calgary , in Calgary. Its productions included her Golden Girls in the 1986-7 season and Beauty and the Beast in 1987-8. She has subsequently held Royal Literary Fund

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Newman offered her cash for a second novel; but she mentioned no such book to the Royal Literary Fund .

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...

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...