Royal Literary Fund

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.

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...

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...

As far as can be made out, the Royal Literary Fund agreed to pay the woman caring for Mosse to perform the last sad offices of humanity. But when her doctor applied for funeral expenses...

To the Royal Literary Fund she boasted the following March, both about her patronage from the marchioness and the fact that this book had brought her thirty pounds. But she still needed to ask for...

HRM sent two sets of recent works (it is not known which) to the Royal Literary Fund , saying she had completed them in 1825-6 while recovering from a recent illness. When after her husband's...

HRM mentioned to the Royal Literary Fund on 13 March 1830 several works in progress which she probably never finished. There were three volumes of moral and entertaining tales founded on fact, and another work...

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.

In the summer of 1865, when the Moodies were again facing poverty, SM finally received recognition for her work in the form of a £60 grant from the Royal Literary Fund .

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 .

EM visited Bordighera in Italy and Cannes in France, with a travel or holiday grant from the Royal Literary Fund .

KSM was granted a pension on the Civil List when she was seventy. Although it later went up from £50 to £120 she still found it hard to make ends meet, and several times applied...

HL first appealed for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund in 1895. On 14 February that year Walter Besant wrote a letter on her behalf which emphasized her ill health and friendless condition; Mabel Robinson

Even after the success of The Mummy she found it hard to manage her money, and first applied to the Royal Literary Fund for help in February 1829.

John Claudius Loudon was comfortably off at the time of his marriage, though he had lost a lot of money around 1815 from the mismanagement of a banker. He lost money again with an over-ambitious...