Royal Literary Fund

SSW , facing prison for a debt of one pound nine shillings, incurred when a window got broken, told the Royal Literary Fund , I am of that sex whose earnings at the best of...

HL first appealed for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund in 1895. On 14 February that year Walter Besant wrote a letter on her behalf which emphasized her ill health and friendless condition; Mabel Robinson

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...

An appeal by AOK to the Royal Literary Fund brought her a payment of fifteen pounds: just the kind of stopgap sum which she saw as inadequate and as not conducive to serious financial planning.

PG was one of those whose applications this year to the Royal Literary Fund were rejected as questionable.

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

KSM was granted a pension on the Civil List when she was seventy. Although it later went up from £50 to £120 she still found it hard to make ends meet, and several times applied...

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.

D. Laing (in the same letter which reports on AOK 's early love-affair) appealed on her behalf to the Royal Literary Fund with both warm sympathy and condescension.

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...

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 .

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...

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 .

These bereavements also deprived her of the means of support. (Her mother had had a life annuity; no pension was forthcoming on the death of her brother.) Her friends attempted to find her patrons or...

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.