Royal Literary Fund

The anonymous epistolary novel The History of Eliza Musgrove, published by June 1769, is ascribed to AW in some sources; but Phebe Gibbes claimed it as her own work in a letter to the...

HRM sent two sets of recent works (it is not known which) to the Royal Literary Fund , saying she had completed them in 1825-6 while recovering from a recent illness. When after her husband's...

HRM mentioned to the Royal Literary Fund on 13 March 1830 several works in progress which she probably never finished. There were three volumes of moral and entertaining tales founded on fact, and another work...

ENB mentioned to the Royal Literary Fund that she had written a play and an opera, but both remained unpublished, and neither has been traced.

A contemporary note in the Harvard copy of The History of Miss Sommerville, published anonymously (as a Lady) in 1769, erroneously attributes it to Mrs Inchbauld. This, however, is too early a...

There was published by W. Mason in two volumes The Spectre of Lanmere Abbey, or The Mystery of the Blue and Silver Bag; A Romance, with SSW 's name.

Following this highly productive year, AB wrote several times more to beg for subsistence from the Royal Literary Fund . Despite her still generally favourable reviews, she ceased to refer, as she had in her...

PG chose anonymity for what seems to be her next novel, the epistolary History of Eliza Musgrove.

The anonymous Zoraida; or, Village Annals. A Novel appeared; though the English Short Title Catalogue and other sources ascribe it to Anne Hughes , PG later told the Royal Literary Fund she had written it.

AOK , a recipient of Royal Literary Fund charity since 1833, became probably the only author ever to question the Fund's methods, setting out by letter her detailed proposals for reforming the system.

PG reported to the Royal Literary Fund her unsubduable aspiration . . . to perfect before she dies, a work that will evince, she has not lived in vain. She had such a work on...

IK , as Catherine Harris, published with Minerva Press an epistolary novel, Edwardina, dedicated to Mrs Souter Johnston .

Among works that SSW claimed when corresponding, late in life, with the Royal Literary Fund were a Life of Alfred the Great and a work entitled Romance and Reason in two volumes.

In 1871 the author of Manfroné (which was reprinted by Minerva Press in 1819 and 1828) was identified in Notes and Queries as a different Mary Ann Radcliffe, who lived in Durham and was a...

IK told the Royal Literary Fund that she had written part of a historical novel, but found it hard to complete because of her sense that literary styles had changed.