Royal Literary Fund

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

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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. In 1827 she told the...

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.

Her title continues, being an Outline of the Religious and Domestic Habits of this most Interesting Nation, with explananatory notes. Her preface says she had collected subscribers, was proud of the names obtained...