Royal Literary Fund

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Textual Production Isabella Kelly
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.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Textual Production Isabella Kelly
IK told the Royal Literary Fund that she had written ten novels. But it seems she underestimated: in addition to the eleven mentioned below, she listed an untraced title (not listed by OCLC or The...
Textual Production Eliza Parsons
Besides EP 's surviving letters to the Royal Literary Fund , OCLC WorldCat lists two undated letters of hers to Sir James Bland Burges and one of 1801 to William Pitt the Younger .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
PG issued a third novel this same year, The Fruitless Repentance; or, The History of Miss Kitty Le Fever (reprinted in facsimile by Garland in 1974).
qtd. in
Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. xi - lvii.
xiv n16
She told the Royal Literary Fund that...
Textual Production Selina Davenport
SD told the Royal Literary Fund that she had written novels before her marriage under the name of Miss Granville, but they have not been traced.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Textual Production Isabella Kelly
IK told the Royal Literary Fund in 1832 that she had written an Epitome of General Knowledge, published by subscription by a non-London publisher, a French Grammar, and Literary Information, written for...
Textual Production Eliza Parsons
According to EP in one of her pleas for help to the Royal Literary Fund , she was compelled by dire necessity to become an Author and her sixty-five volumes of fiction were produced under...
Textual Production Mary Matilda Betham
Some time after printing her Vignettes: in VerseMMB was planning a book to be called Crow-Quill Flights. A certain incoherence of style in the preface (which is all that survives) suggests that it...
Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
PG seems not to have claimed Jemima. A Novel, which was advertised by William Lane of the Minerva Press in March 1795 as by the Author of Zoraida.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 641
The near illegibility...
Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
PG told the Royal Literary Fund later that she had written a novel of this title for the credit and emolument of another hand dec[ease]d: the Mrs Phillips in question, who according to the title...
Textual Production Mary Julia Young
A three-volume, anonymous Minerva novel, The Family Party, 1791, has also been widely ascribed to MJY since Dorothy Blakey first made the attribution in 1939 from a Minerva catalogue of 1814.
Blakey, Dorothy. The Minerva Press 1790-1820. Oxford University Press, 1939, p. 337 pp.
153
This seems...
Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
PG told the Royal Literary Fund this year that she had written novels, dramatic pieces, and several little periodical works. She also offered them Two Little Dramas to publish for the Fund's own benefit.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Textual Production Mary Julia Young
MJY reported to the Royal Literary Fund that she had selected and translated a collection of extracts from works by Voltaire : Voltairiana, 1805, in four volumes.
Batchelor, Jennie. Women’s Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830. Manchester University Press, 2010.
161-2
Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18, 1 June 2008– 2025.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Emily Frederick Clark
The title of this work changed several times during the course of composition. This book must have been the Moral Tales she mentioned to the Royal Literary Fund in 1811 as her fifth work, then...
Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
This year PG asked the Royal Literary Fund for financial help to transcribe illegible manuscripts which she might then be able to sell. She slightly underestimated the forty years she had been writing. She said...

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