Royal Literary Fund

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...

In 1871 the author of Manfroné (which was reprinted by Minerva Press in 1819 and 1828) was identified in Notes and Queries as a different Mary Ann Radcliffe, who lived in Durham and was a...

Before the book was published, and while her husband was suffering his final illness, she was, as always, financially destitute. By February 1966, her editor Diana Athill , her publisher André Deutsch , and publisher...

RMR was in such financial straits that in 1827 (after her husband was a second time declared bankrupt) she applied for help to the Royal Literary Fund . They gave her £20 then and the...

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.

HS wrote a letter to the Royal Literary Fund explaining the circumstances under which her publisher stole and destroyed the manuscript she was writing for serialization in the London Journal.

Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake ...

In recent years, MW has taught creative writing in England, Italy, and Israel. She has held two Fellowships from the Royal Literary Fund : at the University of Hertfordshire in 2004-5 and...

An application to the Royal Literary Fund was secretly made on SW 's behalf by a relation of Elizabeth Heyrick (perhaps her mother) and the publisher Richard Phillips ; they got her a grant of...

SW was a presumably white, middle-class Englishwoman. The application for her to the Royal Literary Fund called her the last branch of a decayed gentleman's family (which had been déclassé by her father's marrying down...

It has not been traced. Edgeworth also reported: My father is afraid, though she has considerable talents, to recommend her to Johnson , lest she should not answer. The Edgeworths were apparently not prepared to...

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

The Royal Literary Fund gave HW ten guineas in 1801, but queried a further application in 1806 (a year in which they dropped many from their list). She had explained to the Fund that she...

When applying to the Royal Literary Fund for money, HW told them that her work had been well received by the Monthly Review, Anti-Jacobin, British Critic, and Gentleman's Magazine: some of...

After 1812: SSW , now a teacher, returned to her early interest in children's books, and produced, she told the Royal Literary Funda vast number of books, of which she can pretend no merit...