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...

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...

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.

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. This seems...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

EM visited Bordighera in Italy and Cannes in France, with a travel or holiday grant from the Royal Literary Fund .

PG applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund , which responded by giving her five guineas.

Attempting to get up a subscription which would make her next novel a more lucrative prospect, she confronted, like many middle-class women in financial difficulty, the fact that their claim to respect would be judged...

The year after Proctor's death, MH applied to the Royal Literary Fund for a pension. She cited her need, her labours on behalf of [her] own sex, and damage to her health inflicted by her...