Royal Literary Fund

The marriage appears to have been childless. By late 1824, ten years after his publication, Isaac Mosse had undergone two years during which illness succeeded illness. He had also been a victim of commercial losses...

Sitting beside his coffin, she wrote emotionally to the Royal Literary Fund : the life of Isaac Mose was without a stain. . . . Let me lay him decently in the grave. They duly...

On 13 March 1830 (just after applying to the Royal Literary Fund on her own account) she sent them some manuscripts of her husband's, hoping that they might arrange for publication.

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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.

Other factors besides ill health affected SB 's writing and earning ability during her last years. In an appeal to the Royal Literary Fund in 1881, she cites the changing tastes of publishers and 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 1986 AF was a writing fellow at the New South Wales Institute of Technology in Sydney, . In 1998 she held the Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia , in the School...