Royal Literary Fund

EFC 's mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of a man calling himself Colonel Frederick, much of whose alleged life story the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doubts. Emily claimed through her mother descent from...

EFC 's grandfather, who committed public suicide by shooting himself in the west porch of Westminster Abbey on 1 February 1797, when he was a little past seventy, was Colonel Frederick or Frederic (called by...

EFC died some time after 7 March 1833, when she was still alive, though ill, and appealing apparently for the last time to the Royal Literary Fund .

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...

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...

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...

DPC was born in Shetland (which she calls Zetland): perhaps at Laxford or Laxfirth. She was baptised on the 11th.

DPC had not worked for over a year and was destitute. She applied for help to the Royal Literary Fund .

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 .

Newman offered her cash for a second novel; but she mentioned no such book to the Royal Literary Fund .

It is dedicated to the Duchess of York , and was advertised in March as soon to appear. The only copy known to survive is at the University of Virginia . This is...

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...

The novel was reviewed the following year. The subscription list, which draws on people with addresses in London, Scotland, and Wales, includes a number of members of the nobility. AB 's life...

AB appealed to the Royal Literary Fund for help in her real and severe Distress of a material kind. They responded (after an intermediate reminder) with a grant of five guineas on 15 November.

AB was once again in dire straits for money, as she told the Royal Literary Fund in a letter which she was able to deliver only after borrowing clothes in which to do so.