Royal Literary Fund

Her family relationships had always been uneasy. The choice of her daughter's school was apparently to be settled by her husband's despotick will. When their son was twenty-two, Alexander blocked some plan of...

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

Four years later she wrote to the Royal Literary Fund , her potential lifeline, of her fears that her lovely and innocent son, who if properly educated, would, I am sure, prove a bright man...

When AOK was eighty it was reported that in her youth she was actually engaged to be married, when her blind father so earnestly craved her undivided time and attention, that she gave it up...

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...

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...

ATP made her last contact with the Royal Literary Fund , from Hammersmith, after a severe illness.

Her health continued to be bad: impaired, said one of her succession of doctors, by her privations. Various physicians wrote to the Royal Literary Fund about her ailments: her confinement to her room for six...

The Royal Literary Fund supplied SSW with five pounds to pay for an operation on the tumour in her breast.

RMR suffered from long illnesses and recurring depression. She had just risen from a bed of sickness when she wrote a long account of herself for the Royal Literary Fund , on 19 November 1831.

The Critical Review praised this work as, unusually for a modern novel, unexceptionable reading for a child of either sex—an accolade which the author repeated years later to prove her worth to the Royal Literary Fund

Despite her careful observance of courtesy, AOK 's proposals did not meet with approval (or, probably, with serious consideration) at the Royal Literary Fund meeting to which she submitted her letter. The draft of the...

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...

It is dedicated to the Duchess of York , and was advertised in March as soon to appear. The only copy known to survive is at the University of Virginia . This is...