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 year after Proctor's death, MH applied to the Royal Literary Fund for a pension. She cited her need, her labours on behalf of [her] own sex, and damage to her health inflicted by her...

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...

John Claudius Loudon was comfortably off at the time of his marriage, though he had lost a lot of money around 1815 from the mismanagement of a banker. He lost money again with an over-ambitious...

PG applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund , which responded by giving her five guineas.

Attempting to get up a subscription which would make her next novel a more lucrative prospect, she confronted, like many middle-class women in financial difficulty, the fact that their claim to respect would be judged...

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.

PG received £10 from the Royal Literary Fund .

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...

SSW , in great distress, first received financial aid—five pounds—from the Royal Literary Fund .

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.

HL first appealed for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund in 1895. On 14 February that year Walter Besant wrote a letter on her behalf which emphasized her ill health and friendless condition; Mabel Robinson

On her father 's death AOK applied to the Royal Literary Fund , which granted her £25. For the Fund she estimated her lifetime literary earnings for herself as not more than £200.

PG again received £10 from the Royal Literary Fund .

In 1806 Charles Lamb reported that the Holcroft family were reduced to poverty.The next few years brought them close to starvation. FH waited until after her father's death before seeking aid from the Royal Literary Fund