Royal Literary Fund

She was buried with her husband in Kensal Green cemetery, where her grave was immediately covered with a sea of floral tributes sent by admirers. Her daughter later set up an urn in her...

After months of steadily deepening poverty, ML wrote to Thomas Carlyle , whom she greatly admired, asking him to obtain her financial assistance from the Royal Literary Fund .

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.

George Louis was a schoolboy at six (a weekly boarder). He began publishing in periodicals at about twelve, and made his mark as a prodigy. As he came of age, however, he seems to have...

Her family relationships had always been uneasy. The choice of her daughter's school was apparently to be settled by her husband's despotick will. When their son was twenty-two, Alexander blocked some plan of...

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...

IK told the Royal Literary Fund that she had written ten novels. But it seems she underestimated: in addition to the eleven mentioned below, she listed an untraced title (not listed by OCLC or The...

IK told the Royal Literary Fund in 1832 that she had written an Epitome of General Knowledge, published by subscription by a non-London publisher, a French Grammar, and Literary Information, written for...

Isabella Fordyce (later IK ) was born in (she said) the ruined castle of Cairnburgh in the Hebrides.

IK , as Catherine Harris, published with Minerva Press an epistolary novel, Edwardina, dedicated to Mrs Souter Johnston .

IK told the Royal Literary Fund that she had written part of a historical novel, but found it hard to complete because of her sense that literary styles had changed.

By the time JFLW moved to Oakley Street, her finances were greatly reduced. A day after arriving at the new house, she asked to borrow a sovereign from Constance . Proper household management became difficult...

By 16 November 1888, she had also received a grant of £100 from the Royal Literary Fund . Her son Oscar Wilde helped her to secure both pensions.

A contemporary note in the Harvard copy of The History of Miss Sommerville, published anonymously (as a Lady) in 1769, erroneously attributes it to Mrs Inchbauld. This, however, is too early a...

In 1806 Charles Lamb reported that the Holcroft family were reduced to poverty.The next few years brought them close to starvation. FH waited until after her father's death before seeking aid from the Royal Literary Fund