Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Royal Literary Fund
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Wealth and Poverty | Amelia Bristow | AB
first applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund
in the second year after her wedding, and received the relatively generous payment of ten pounds. |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Burke | In a year in which it instituted a Committee of Enquiry and struck seventy-three applicants from its books (a number of them women), the Royal Literary Fund
made one more grant to AB
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. Batchelor, Jennie. “The Man of Genius and the Female Drudge: Labour, Gender, Authorship and the Royal Literary Fund”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV. |
Wealth and Poverty | Adelaide O'Keeffe | D. Laing
(in the same letter which reports on AOK
's early love-affair) appealed on her behalf to the Royal Literary Fund
with both warm sympathy and condescension. This letter-writer may have been the Rev... |
Wealth and Poverty | Amelia Bristow | AB
again applied to the Royal Literary Fund
and received twenty pounds, as she had done two years previously; this is her last known application. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Helen Mathers | Even during her husband
's lifetime, severe financial hardship resulted in HM
applying for assistance from the Royal Literary Fund
and the Royal Bounty Fund
. Cross, Nigel. The Royal Literary Fund 1790-1918: An introduction to the Fund’s history and archives with an index of applicants. World Microfilms Publications. 61 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Wealth and Poverty | Catherine Cookson | That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure... |
Wealth and Poverty | Regina Maria Roche | 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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Harriet Corp | HC
applied (with a letter of recommendation from William Frend
) for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | HRM
first applied for help to the Royal Literary Fund
, not as an author but as an author's wife. Six days later she wrote again humbly mentioning her own little works. |
Wealth and Poverty | Adelaide O'Keeffe | In the same year the Royal Literary Fund
paid her another twenty pounds and Prince Albert
personally sent her five pounds. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Frances Browne | Despite an annual Civil List
pension of a hundred pounds, and payments totalling £120 from the Royal Literary Fund
over the past seven years, FB
declared bankruptcy. McLean, Thomas. “Arms and the Circassian Woman: Frances Browne’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Star of Attéghéi</span>”;. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 41 , No. 3, West Virginia University Press, pp. 295-18. 298, 315n11 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 |
Wealth and Poverty | Isabella Kelly | From the time of her first husband's death, IK
lived in poverty. Henrietta Fordyce
, whose life she wrote, died without finishing the will in which she intended to leave her a bequest. IK
was... |
Wealth and Poverty | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | HRM
's continuing financial straits forced her to re-apply to the Royal Literary Fund
as a widow, not on her husband's account but her own (trusting, she said, to their kindness rather than to her merit). Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Margaret Croker | She seems to have inherited poverty from her father, following in his footsteps as an applicant to the Royal Literary Fund
. She received a grant from the Fund in 1818, and made further applications... |
Wealth and Poverty | Adelaide O'Keeffe | It is not clear whether social or literary standing caused her to rank so much lower than Morgan. The Royal Literary Fund
continued to support O'Keeffe with petty sums: fifteen pounds in 1861, in 1863... |
Timeline
1790: The Royal Literary Fund was established in...
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1790
The Royal Literary Fund
was established in London by David Williamsto relieve literary men of all nations; it made many small grants to women writers.
1984: The Authors' Foundation was set up to make...
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1984
The Authors' Foundation
was set up to make awards to writers: it marked the centenary of the Society of Authors
and had help from the Royal Literary Fund
; it had Antonia Fraser
and Michael Holroyd
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