Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Royal Literary Fund
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Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Burke | The novel was reviewed the following year. The subscription list, which draws on people with addresses in London, Scotland, and Wales, includes a number of members of the nobility. AB
's life... |
names | Alicia Tyndal Palmer |
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Occupation | Alison Fell | 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... |
Occupation | Louise Page | 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 |
Occupation | Michelene Wandor | 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... |
Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | 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
... |
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... |
Occupation | John Oliver Hobbes | 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 |
Occupation | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | 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. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Author summary | Elizabeth Helme | 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... |
Author summary | Phebe Gibbes | 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... |
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, 2000, 2 vols. 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. qtd. in Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 621 |
Publishing | Susanna Watts | |
Publishing | Harriet Smythies | 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. Cross, Nigel. The Common Writer. Cambridge University Press, 1985. 190 |
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