Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
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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. |
Wealth and Poverty | Susanna Watts | An application to the Royal Literary Fund
was secretly made on SW
's behalf by a relation of Elizabeth Heyrick
(perhaps her mother) and the publisher Richard Phillips
; they got her a grant of... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Julia Young | MJY
applied for financial assistance to the Royal Literary Fund
. Her publisher, she said, owed her seventy pounds but had paid her only ten per cent of it. Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18. letter 1 |
Wealth and Poverty | Selina Davenport | SD
appealed to the Royal Literary Fund
for financial aid of thirty pounds, while her husband
, who himself had been receiving money from the fund since 1809 without her knowing it, tried to block... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Ann Browne | MAB
(now Gray, not yet one year married) applied to the Royal Literary Fund
for money, saying that her husband had been promised a government post which had not materialised. They paid her forty pounds. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Charlotte Lennox | CF turned for help in her dire financial predicament to the recently founded Royal Literary Fund
. They paid her ten guineas then, twelve guineas to send her son to Virginia, and further payments. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 317-44. 328 Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
had not worked for over a year and was destitute. She applied for help to the Royal Literary Fund
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
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