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...

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...

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...

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...

The early, temporary friendships she mentions seem not to have lasted beyond her widowhood, or perhaps beyond her marriage. A man named Dan Lovell , a resident in the same house, helped support her at...

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

In April 1856, SB successfully appealed to the Royal Literary Fund to help finance her trips to Finland (which was currently a Russian territory) and possibly to Russia proper as well.