Royal Literary Fund

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Wealth and Poverty Selina Bunbury
Because of her ill health, she found it difficult to earn enough money to support herself, as she testified in a letter written on 31 May 1881 to the Royal Literary Fund .
Fyfe, Aileen. Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain. University of Chicago Press.
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Wealth and Poverty Margiad Evans
Money was always tight throughout ME 's life. She began her writing career relying on her father's tiny pension to supplement her earnings from intermittent paid work, and it was a problem for her when...
Wealth and Poverty Alicia Tyndal Palmer
ATP lived a comfortable existence as a young woman, but she was apparently left without means when her surviving parent died before she was twenty. She must have been poor during the 1820s, as evidenced...
Wealth and Poverty Frances Bellerby
FB 's poverty (which had made Charles Causley and others urge her to apply for help to the Royal Literary Fund ) was alleviated by a small pension from the Civil List for services to literature.
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press.
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Wealth and Poverty Helena Wells
The Royal Literary Fund gave HW ten guineas in 1801, but queried a further application in 1806 (a year in which they dropped many from their list). She had explained to the Fund that she...
Wealth and Poverty Mary Linskill
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 .
Stamp, Cordelia. Mary Linskill. Caedmon of Whitby.
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Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son.
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Wealth and Poverty Emily Frederick Clark
EFC asked the Royal Literary Fund for fifteen pounds with which to pay her baker's bill; the Fund recorded a payment of fifteen guineas to her this year.
Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press.
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Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Wealth and Poverty Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
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...
Wealth and Poverty Eliza Parsons
EP applied for help to the recently founded Literary Fund (later the Royal Literary Fund), detailing the various financial accidents and reverses that had so far befallen her.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Bentley
The Royal Literary Fund paid EB fifteen guineas (very generous according to its usually class-based scale of awards).
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Wealth and Poverty Ann Gomersall
After her husband's death left her without support, she managed for more than eight years with her work, and some help from friends. But at last affliction, infirmity, and age
Gomersall, Ann. Creation, A Poem. Printed for the author, and sold by Black, Young, and Young, London; J. Rowden, Newport.
prelims
rendered her destitute, and...
Wealth and Poverty Jane Loudon
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
Ashfield, Andrew. Email: Notes on Susannah Dobson (1738-1795) and Jane Webb 1800-1858.
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Wealth and Poverty Phebe Gibbes
PG applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund , which responded by giving her five guineas.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Wealth and Poverty Eliza Parsons
Attempting to get up a subscription which would make her next novel a more lucrative prospect, she confronted, like many middle-class women in financial difficulty, the fact that their claim to respect would be judged...
Wealth and Poverty Matilda Hays
The year after Proctor's death, MH applied to the Royal Literary Fund for a pension. She cited her need, her labours on behalf of [her] own sex, and damage to her health inflicted by her...

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