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Loan 96 RLF 1/1247
Mrs Selina Davenport (pseudonym: Miss Granville)

Mrs Selina Davenport

Applications

6 (4 successful)

Date period

16 May 1850-16 Dec 1856

Awards

  • 16 May 1850 (£30)
  • Mar 1852 (£20)
  • 4 Apr 1843 (rejected)
  • 20 Apr 1854 (£15)
  • 30 Jun 1855 (rejected)
  • 20 Nov 1856 (£10)

Other author name(s)

(pseudonym) Miss Granville Granville

Author's career

 - 

Author's works published

Fiction : Novels

Also named in file

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More information

Timeline

1850

Application Form, Selina Davenport – endorsed by Mary Holland, W H G Mann and Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

16 May 1850
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/1
 

Selina Davenport to the Committee of the Literary Fund

1 Jun 1850
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/2
 

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell to Octavian Blewitt

3 Jun 1850
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/3
 

John Forster to Octavian Blewitt

4 Jun 1850
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/4
 

John Britton to Octavian Blewitt

8 Jun 1850
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/5
 

Richard Alfred Davenport to John Britton

6 Jun 1850
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/6
 

Mary Holland to Octavian Blewitt

14 Jun 1850
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/7
 

Selina Davenport to the Committee of the Literary Fund

16 Jun 1850
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/8
1852

Application Form, Selina Davenport – endorsed by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Lucy Holland, Susan Deane and Robert Clowes

Mar 1852
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/9
 

John Forster to Octavian Blewitt

16 Mar 1852
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell to Octavian Blewitt

17 Mar 1852
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/11
 

Lucy Holland to the Committee of the Literary Fund

Mar 1852
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/12
 

George Spencer Clement to the Committee of the Literary Fund – medical certificate

20 Mar 1852
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/13
 

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell to Octavian Blewitt

22 Mar 1852
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/14
 

Selina Davenport to Octavian Blewitt

16 Apr 1852
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/15
1853

Application Form, Selina Davenport – endorsed by Henry Barber, Thomas Gallimore and Thomas Howarth, with note by Octavian Blewitt on reverse confirming valid marriage certificate was produced

4 Apr 1853
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/16
 

Selina Davenport to Octavian Blewitt

29 Mar 1853
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/17
 

Henry Barber to the Committee of the Literary Fund

11 Mar 1853
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/18
1854

Application Form, Selina Davenport – endorsed by Robert Clowes, Lucy Holland and J Kingsley, with note by Octavian Blewitt on reverse confirming valid marriage certificate was produced

20 Apr 1854
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/19
 

Selina Davenport to the Committee of the Literary Fund

1 May 1854
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/20
 

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell to Octavian Blewitt

26 Apr 1854
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/21
 

Lucy Holland to Octavian Blewitt

1 May 1854
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/22
 

Selina Davenport to the Committee of the Literary Fund

15 May 1854
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/23
1855

Application Form, Selina Davenport – endorsed by Robert Clowes, Lucy Holland and Charles Merriman

30 Jun 1855
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Selina Davenport to Octavian Blewitt

21 May 1855
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/25
 

Lucy Holland to the Committee of the Literary Fund

28 Jun 1855
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/26
 

Charles Merriman to the Committee of the Literary Fund

28 Jun 1855
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/27
1856

Application Form, Selina Davenport – endorsed by Robert Clowes, Charles Mitchell, Joseph Swinburne and Emily Leycester

20 Nov 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/28
 

Selina Davenport to the Committee of the Literary Fund

Nov 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/29
 

Emily Leycester to Octavian Blewitt

14 Nov 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/30
 

Emily Leycester to Octavian Blewitt

Nov 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/31
 

Emily Leycester to Octavian Blewitt

15 Dec 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/32
 

Selina Davenport to the Committee of the Literary Fund

16 Dec 1856
Loan 96 RLF 1/1247/33
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