Royal Literary Fund

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...

The Critical Review praised this work as, unusually for a modern novel, unexceptionable reading for a child of either sex—an accolade which the author repeated years later to prove her worth to the Royal Literary Fund

Despite her careful observance of courtesy, AOK 's proposals did not meet with approval (or, probably, with serious consideration) at the Royal Literary Fund meeting to which she submitted her letter. The draft of the...

Her health continued to be bad: impaired, said one of her succession of doctors, by her privations. Various physicians wrote to the Royal Literary Fund about her ailments: her confinement to her room for six...

ATP made her last contact with the Royal Literary Fund , from Hammersmith, after a severe illness.

MMB had some kind of general breakdown of health whose beginning Ernest Betham dates to about 1818 (though she seems to have been well when her Vignettes: in Verse appeared this year). Robert Southey reported...

The Royal Literary Fund supplied SSW with five pounds to pay for an operation on the tumour in her breast.

RMR suffered from long illnesses and recurring depression. She had just risen from a bed of sickness when she wrote a long account of herself for the Royal Literary Fund , on 19 November 1831.

The marriage ended around 1810 in an acrimonious separation. SD left her husband, for what her supporters later said were sufficient reasons. Years later Jane Porter wrote that SDis known by the name...

George Louis was a schoolboy at six (a weekly boarder). He began publishing in periodicals at about twelve, and made his mark as a prodigy. As he came of age, however, he seems to have...

They had four children. From HW 's appeals to the Royal Literary Fund , it does not appear that her husband was a breadwinner.

Her family relationships had always been uneasy. The choice of her daughter's school was apparently to be settled by her husband's despotick will. When their son was twenty-two, Alexander blocked some plan of...

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...

Four years later she wrote to the Royal Literary Fund , her potential lifeline, of her fears that her lovely and innocent son, who if properly educated, would, I am sure, prove a bright man...