Royal Literary Fund

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

The early, temporary friendships she mentions seem not to have lasted beyond her widowhood, or perhaps beyond her marriage. A man named Dan Lovell , a resident in the same house, helped support her at...

ENB mentioned to the Royal Literary Fund that she had written a play and an opera, but both remained unpublished, and neither has been traced.

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.

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.

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...

Browne's applications to the Royal Literary Fund survive in the Fund's archive (available on microfilm), and the National Library of Ireland has two letters she wrote in 1844. The National Library of Scotland holds several...

SB helped to support various family members through her writings: most of her applications to the Royal Literary Fund cite the needs of ill or orphaned sisters, nieces, and nephews as dependents on her. She...

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 .

SB also wrote for the Religious Tract Society and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , and she contributed to the Christian Examiner and Cornhill Magazine. Much of this writing was anonymous. She penned...

In April 1856, SB successfully appealed to the Royal Literary Fund to help finance her trips to Finland (which was currently a Russian territory) and possibly to Russia proper as well.

Other factors besides ill health affected SB 's writing and earning ability during her last years. In an appeal to the Royal Literary Fund in 1881, she cites the changing tastes of publishers and the...

AB appealed to the Royal Literary Fund for help in her real and severe Distress of a material kind. They responded (after an intermediate reminder) with a grant of five guineas on 15 November.

AB was once again in dire straits for money, as she told the Royal Literary Fund in a letter which she was able to deliver only after borrowing clothes in which to do so.

AB , on a fresh appeal to the Royal Literary Fund , was paid five guineas but warned not to expect any further payments in the future.