Royal Literary Fund

Isabella Fordyce (later IK ) was born in (she said) the ruined castle of Cairnburgh in the Hebrides.

DPC was born in Shetland (which she calls Zetland): perhaps at Laxford or Laxfirth. She was baptised on the 11th.

SW was a presumably white, middle-class Englishwoman. The application for her to the Royal Literary Fund called her the last branch of a decayed gentleman's family (which had been déclassé by her father's marrying down...

Setting out her ancestry for the Royal Literary Fund when she was old and destitute, SD emphasised her connections with the English gentry and even the nobility.

EFC died some time after 7 March 1833, when she was still alive, though ill, and appealing apparently for the last time to the Royal Literary Fund .

She was buried with her husband in Kensal Green cemetery, where her grave was immediately covered with a sea of floral tributes sent by admirers. Her daughter later set up an urn in her...

MC died: the exact date is not known; but she is last heard of in this month, in her final application to the Royal Literary Fund .

EFC 's grandfather, who committed public suicide by shooting himself in the west porch of Westminster Abbey on 1 February 1797, when he was a little past seventy, was Colonel Frederick or Frederic (called by...

George Louis was a schoolboy at six (a weekly boarder). He began publishing in periodicals at about twelve, and made his mark as a prodigy. As he came of age, however, he seems to have...

Her family relationships had always been uneasy. The choice of her daughter's school was apparently to be settled by her husband's despotick will. When their son was twenty-two, Alexander blocked some plan of...

ENB says nothing about her mother in her Royal Literary Fund application (the only source of information about her life or background).

Four years later she wrote to the Royal Literary Fund , her potential lifeline, of her fears that her lovely and innocent son, who if properly educated, would, I am sure, prove a bright man...

When AOK was eighty it was reported that in her youth she was actually engaged to be married, when her blind father so earnestly craved her undivided time and attention, that she gave it up...

The marriage ended around 1810 in an acrimonious separation. SD left her husband, for what her supporters later said were sufficient reasons. Years later Jane Porter wrote that SDis known by the name...

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...