Royal Literary Fund

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Publishing Dorothea Primrose Campbell
Newman offered her cash for a second novel; but she mentioned no such book to the Royal Literary Fund .
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 Selina Bunbury
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...
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
In 1827 she told the...
Reception Emily Frederick Clark
From EFC 's letters to the Royal Literary Fund it would seem that she entertained a very modest estimate of her own talents. Late in her career, for example, she calls her own works very...
Reception Gillian Allnutt
GA was appointed to a two-year Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at the University of Newcastle .
“Gillian Allnutt”. The Royal Literary Fund: Former Fellows.
Reception Susanna Moodie
In the summer of 1865, when the Moodies were again facing poverty, SM finally received recognition for her work in the form of a £60 grant from the Royal Literary Fund .
Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999.
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Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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Reception Frances Browne
Browne's applications to the Royal Literary Fund survive in the Fund's archive (available on microfilm), and the National Library of Ireland has two letters she wrote in 1844. The National Library of Scotland holds several...
Reception Phyllis Bentley
She was proud to be the second woman ever elected to the committee of the Royal Literary Fund .
Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz, 1962.
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Reception Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
By 16 November 1888, she had also received a grant of £100 from the Royal Literary Fund . Her son Oscar Wilde helped her to secure both pensions.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
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Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995.
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Reception Helena Wells
When applying to the Royal Literary Fund for money, HW told them that her work had been well received by the Monthly Review, Anti-Jacobin, British Critic, and Gentleman's Magazine: some of...
Textual Features Dorothea Primrose Campbell
One of the Royal Literary Fund 's forms gives this novel the title A Zetland Tale. It is indeed a National Tale, comparable to those of Scott, Christian Isobel Johnstone , and Sydney Morgan .
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Textual Production Emily Frederick Clark
In 1812 EFC told the Royal Literary Fund that she was working on Rosamond, or Love in Sicily (presumably a novel, not known to have been published); a few years later she was proposing to...
Textual Production Mary Julia Young
Writing to the Royal Literary Fund , MJY was predictably humble and self-depreciating about her writing. She said her novels were riddled with numerous typographical errors made by their publishers, which she was powerless to...
Textual Production Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
To the Royal Literary Fund she boasted the following March, both about her patronage from the marchioness and the fact that this book had brought her thirty pounds. But she still needed to ask for...

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