Royal Literary Fund

They continued to help her, but with smaller sums than when her husband was alive. In 1830 she told them about the more than five pounds she had spent advertising for a situation as an...

ATP appealed for money, apparently for the first time, to the Royal Literary Fund , which made her a grant of £20.

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...

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...

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 .

EFC asked the Royal Literary Fund for fifteen pounds with which to pay her baker's bill; the Fund recorded a payment of fifteen guineas to her this year.

As far as can be made out, the Royal Literary Fund agreed to pay the woman caring for Mosse to perform the last sad offices of humanity. But when her doctor applied for funeral expenses...

Money was always tight throughout ME 's life. She began her writing career relying on her father's tiny pension to supplement her earnings from intermittent paid work, and it was a problem for her when...

ATP lived a comfortable existence as a young woman, but she was apparently left without means when her surviving parent died before she was twenty. She must have been poor during the 1820s, as evidenced...

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.

The Royal Literary Fund gave HW ten guineas in 1801, but queried a further application in 1806 (a year in which they dropped many from their list). She had explained to the Fund that she...

After months of steadily deepening poverty, ML wrote to Thomas Carlyle , whom she greatly admired, asking him to obtain her financial assistance from the Royal Literary Fund .

EP applied for help to the recently founded Literary Fund (later the Royal Literary Fund), detailing the various financial accidents and reverses that had so far befallen her.

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

After her husband's death left her without support, she managed for more than eight years with her work, and some help from friends. But at last affliction, infirmity, and age rendered her destitute, and...