Royal Literary Fund

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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 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.
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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 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&gt”;. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
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, No. 3, West Virginia University Press, pp. 295-18.
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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.
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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...
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 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.
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Crosland, Newton. Rambles Round My Life. E. W. Allen.
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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.

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