Royal Literary Fund

EM visited Bordighera in Italy and Cannes in France, with a travel or holiday 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 .

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 .

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.

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).

The marriage appears to have been childless. By late 1824, ten years after his publication, Isaac Mosse had undergone two years during which illness succeeded illness. He had also been a victim of commercial losses...

Sitting beside his coffin, she wrote emotionally to the Royal Literary Fund : the life of Isaac Mose was without a stain. . . . Let me lay him decently in the grave. They duly...

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.

On her father 's death AOK applied to the Royal Literary Fund , which granted her £25. For the Fund she estimated her lifetime literary earnings for herself as not more than £200.