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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. 61 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 | 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 | 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>”;. 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 | 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. 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. |
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