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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 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.
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 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 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 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...
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 Jean Rhys
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...
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
In 1827 she told the...
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.
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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
Her preface says she had collected subscribers, was proud of the names obtained...
Publishing Phebe Gibbes
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...
Publishing Susanna Watts
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.
Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook.
The Edgeworths were apparently not prepared to...
Publishing Dorothea Primrose Campbell
Newman offered her cash for a second novel; but she mentioned no such book to the Royal Literary Fund .

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