Royal Literary Fund

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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...
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&gt”;. 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 Camilla Crosland
Despite the efforts of both Camilla and her mother , their family remained subject to financial woes until Camilla's marriage. By 1848 she received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund .
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 32
Crosland, Newton. Rambles Round My Life. E. W. Allen.
363
Wealth and Poverty Adelaide O'Keeffe
Three pounds out of fifteen granted her by the Royal Literary Fund in June had to be returned: Fund regulations forbade any of it to be used for her burial.
Wealth and Poverty Frances Browne
She was never well off, though she sought, and was granted, financial patronage from a number of sources. Early in her career Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice , the third marquess of Lansdowne, made Browne a generous payment...
Wealth and Poverty Selina Davenport
SD appealed to the Royal Literary Fund for financial aid of thirty pounds, while her husband , who himself had been receiving money from the fund since 1809 without her knowing it, tried to block...
Wealth and Poverty Susanna Watts
An application to the Royal Literary Fund was secretly made on SW 's behalf by a relation of Elizabeth Heyrick (perhaps her mother) and the publisher Richard Phillips ; they got her a grant of...
Wealth and Poverty Mary Julia Young
MJY applied for financial assistance to the Royal Literary Fund . Her publisher, she said, owed her seventy pounds but had paid her only ten per cent of it.
Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18.
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Wealth and Poverty Mary Ann Browne
MAB (now Gray, not yet one year married) applied to the Royal Literary Fund for money, saying that her husband had been promised a government post which had not materialised. They paid her forty pounds.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Wealth and Poverty Charlotte Lennox
CF turned for help in her dire financial predicament to the recently founded Royal Literary Fund . They paid her ten guineas then, twelve guineas to send her son to Virginia, and further payments.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
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, No. 4, pp. 317-44.
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Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Wealth and Poverty Dorothea Primrose Campbell
DPC had not worked for over a year and was destitute. She applied for help to the Royal Literary Fund .
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Wealth and Poverty Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
They continued to help her, but with smaller sums than when her husband was alive. In 1830 she told them about the more than five pounds she had spent advertising for a situation as an...
Wealth and Poverty Alicia Tyndal Palmer
ATP appealed for money, apparently for the first time, to the Royal Literary Fund , which made her a grant of £20.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

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