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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)

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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