Royal Literary Fund

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.

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.

In a year in which it instituted a Committee of Enquiry and struck seventy-three applicants from its books (a number of them women), the Royal Literary Fund made one more grant to AB .

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...

AB , who had previously worked as a governess in private families, planned when she received her first tiny grant from the Royal Literary Fund to open a small school, but it is not clear...

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...

Following this highly productive year, AB wrote several times more to beg for subsistence from the Royal Literary Fund . Despite her still generally favourable reviews, she ceased to refer, as she had in her...

The novel was reviewed the following year. The subscription list, which draws on people with addresses in London, Scotland, and Wales, includes a number of members of the nobility. AB 's life...