Royal Literary Fund

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...

On 13 March 1830 (just after applying to the Royal Literary Fund on her own account) she sent them some manuscripts of her husband's, hoping that they might arrange for publication.

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...

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...

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...

To the Royal Literary Fund she boasted the following March, both about her patronage from the marchioness and the fact that this book had brought her thirty pounds. But she still needed to ask for...

In the summer of 1865, when the Moodies were again facing poverty, SM finally received recognition for her work in the form of a £60 grant from the Royal Literary Fund .

Even during her husband 's lifetime, severe financial hardship resulted in HM applying for assistance from the Royal Literary Fund and the Royal Bounty Fund .

EM visited Bordighera in Italy and Cannes in France, with a travel or holiday grant from the Royal Literary Fund .

KSM was granted a pension on the Civil List when she was seventy. Although it later went up from £50 to £120 she still found it hard to make ends meet, and several times applied...

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

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...

She was buried with her husband in Kensal Green cemetery, where her grave was immediately covered with a sea of floral tributes sent by admirers. Her daughter later set up an urn in her...