Royal Literary Fund

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

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...

In 1987 LP became associate director of Theatre Calgary , in Calgary. Its productions included her Golden Girls in the 1986-7 season and Beauty and the Beast in 1987-8. She has subsequently held Royal Literary Fund

It is not clear whether social or literary standing caused her to rank so much lower than Morgan. The Royal Literary Fund continued to support O'Keeffe with petty sums: fifteen pounds in 1861, in 1863...

Three pounds out of fifteen granted her by the Royal Literary Fund in June had to be returned: Fund regulations forbade any of it to be used for her burial.

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...

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.

An appeal by AOK to the Royal Literary Fund brought her a payment of fifteen pounds: just the kind of stopgap sum which she saw as inadequate and as not conducive to serious financial planning.

D. Laing (in the same letter which reports on AOK 's early love-affair) appealed on her behalf to the Royal Literary Fund with both warm sympathy and condescension.

AOK , a recipient of Royal Literary Fund charity since 1833, became probably the only author ever to question the Fund's methods, setting out by letter her detailed proposals for reforming the system.

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...

In the same year the Royal Literary Fund paid her another twenty pounds and Prince Albert personally sent her five pounds.

HRM 's continuing financial straits forced her to re-apply to the Royal Literary Fund as a widow, not on her husband's account but her own (trusting, she said, to their kindness rather than to her merit).

The marriage appears to have been childless. By late 1824, ten years after his publication, Isaac Mosse had undergone two years during which illness succeeded illness. He had also been a victim of commercial losses...

Sitting beside his coffin, she wrote emotionally to the Royal Literary Fund : the life of Isaac Mose was without a stain. . . . Let me lay him decently in the grave. They duly...