Gomersall, Ann. Creation, A Poem. Printed for the author, and sold by Black, Young, and Young, London; J. Rowden, Newport, 1824.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Ann Gomersall | After her husband's death left her without support, she managed for more than eight years with her work, and some help from friends. But at last affliction, infirmity, and age |
| Wealth and Poverty | Jane Loudon | Even after the success of The Mummy she found it hard to manage her money, and first applied to the Royal Literary Fund
for help in February 1829 Ashfield, Andrew, and Isobel Grundy. Email: Notes on Susannah Dobson (1738-1795) and Jane Webb 1800-1858. 14 May 2019. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Eliza Nugent Bromley | ENB submitted a request for financial aid to the Royal Literary Fund
, enumerating her various works. On 19 JuneHer request was Negativ'd. “Mrs. Eliza Nugent Bromley”. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/AELMKX416881308/NCCO?u=edmo69826&sid=bookmark-NCCO&xid=55357e7f&pg=1. 5 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Anne Burke | In a year in which it instituted a Committee of Enquiry and struck seventy-three applicants from its books (a number of them women), the Royal Literary Fund
made one more grant to AB
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. Batchelor, Jennie. “The Man of Genius and the Female Drudge: Labour, Gender, Authorship and the Royal Literary Fund”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 31 Mar. 2005. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Phebe Gibbes | PG
applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund
, which responded by giving her five guineas. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Matilda Hays | 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... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Jane Loudon | John Claudius Loudon
was comfortably off at the time of his marriage, though he had lost a lot of money around 1815 from the mismanagement of a banker. He lost money again with an over-ambitious... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Phebe Gibbes | |
| Wealth and Poverty | Catherine Cookson | That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | SSW
, in great distress, first received financial aid—five pounds—from the Royal Literary Fund
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Adelaide O'Keeffe | On her father
's death AOK
applied to the Royal Literary Fund
, which granted her £25. For the Fund she estimated her lifetime literary earnings for herself as not more than £200. This estimate... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Phebe Gibbes | |
| Wealth and Poverty | Harriet Corp | HC
applied (with a letter of recommendation from William Frend
) for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | SSW
, facing prison for a debt of one pound nine shillings, incurred when a window got broken, told the Royal Literary Fund
, I am of that sex whose earnings at the best of... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Hannah Lynch | HL
first appealed for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund
in 1895. On 14 February that year Walter Besant
wrote a letter on her behalf which emphasized her ill health and friendless condition; Mabel Robinson |
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