Royal Literary Fund

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ENB mentioned to the Royal Literary Fund that she had written a play and an opera, but both remained unpublished, and neither has been traced.

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.

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.

She included a dedication to her 152 subscribers. It reached a second edition the same year, and a fourth, as Elizabeth Allen; or, The Faithful Servant in 1832. In 1827 she told the...

Her title continues, being an Outline of the Religious and Domestic Habits of this most Interesting Nation, with explananatory notes. Her preface says she had collected subscribers, was proud of the names obtained...

Some time after printing her Vignettes: in VerseMMB was planning a book to be called Crow-Quill Flights. A certain incoherence of style in the preface (which is all that survives) suggests that it...

MMB had some kind of general breakdown of health whose beginning Ernest Betham dates to about 1818 (though she seems to have been well when her Vignettes: in Verse appeared this year). Robert Southey reported...

She applied to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance because of her poverty. Her application said she was paying five shillings a week in rent, and could reduce that to two shillings if she was...

The Royal Literary Fund paid EB fifteen guineas (very generous according to its usually class-based scale of awards).

She was proud to be the second woman ever elected to the committee of the Royal Literary Fund .

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.

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...

GA was appointed to a two-year Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at the University of Newcastle .

By the time JFLW moved to Oakley Street, her finances were greatly reduced. A day after arriving at the new house, she asked to borrow a sovereign from Constance . Proper household management became difficult...