Royal Literary Fund

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.

AB first applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund in the second year after her wedding, and received the relatively generous payment of ten pounds.

In a year in which it instituted a Committee of Enquiry and struck seventy-three applicants from its books (a number of them women), the Royal Literary Fund made one more grant to AB .

That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure...

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...

AB again applied to the Royal Literary Fund and received twenty pounds, as she had done two years previously; this is her last known application.

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 .

HC applied (with a letter of recommendation from William Frend ) for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund .

In the same year the Royal Literary Fund paid her another twenty pounds and Prince Albert personally sent her five pounds.

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.

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...

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...

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.

From the time of her first husband's death, IK lived in poverty. Henrietta Fordyce , whose life she wrote, died without finishing the will in which she intended to leave her a bequest. IK was...

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).