Case file
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Mrs Olivia Wilmot Serres (at times claiming to be Princess Olive of Cumberland), and Mrs Lavinia Jannetta Horton Ryves, her daughter
Mrs Olivia Wilmot Serres
Applications
5 (0 successful)
Date period
13 Jan 1813-28 Dec 1871
Awards
- 13 Jan 1813 (referred)
- 10 Feb 1813 (rejected)
- 30 Apr 1813 (rejected)
- 7 Feb 1834 (rejected)
- 30 Oct 1839 (Lavinia Ryves; rejected)
Other author name(s)
(aka) Princess Olive of Cumberland
Author's career
-
Author's works published
Various : Poetry, Fiction, Opera, Memoir
Also named in file
Mrs Lavinia Jannetta Horton Ryves (dependent)
More information
Timeline
1813
Extracts from the minutes of the Committee of the Literary Fund
13 Jan 1813-10 Feb 1813
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1832
Olivia Wilmot Serres to the Committee of the Literary Fund
30 Apr 1832
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1834
Olivia Wilmot Serres to the Secretary of the Literary Fund
7 Feb 1834
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‘Works and Writings of the Princess Olive before she knew her birth’, by Olivia Wilmot Serres
Feb 1834
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1839
Lavinia Ryves to the Committee of the Literary Fund, with note from Octavian Blewitt informing her that her application ‘cannot be sustained’
30 Oct 1839
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1840
Printed advertisement soliciting the Governors of St Ann’s Society School for an education for William Ryves
Feb 1840
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1845
Comprehensive collection of newspaper cuttings about the royal claims of Oliva Wilmot Serres and Lavinia Ryves (30pp.), including letters to editors, reports of court proceedings and obituaries
1845-28 Dec 1871
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