Royal Literary Fund

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

The Royal Literary Fund gave HW ten guineas in 1801, but queried a further application in 1806 (a year in which they dropped many from their list). She had explained to the Fund that she...

ATP appealed for money, apparently for the first time, to the Royal Literary Fund , which made her a grant of £20.

CF turned for help in her dire financial predicament to the recently founded Royal Literary Fund . They paid her ten guineas then, twelve guineas to send her son to Virginia, and further payments.

AB first applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund in the second year after her wedding, and received the relatively generous payment of ten pounds.

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...

MJY applied for financial assistance to the Royal Literary Fund . Her publisher, she said, owed her seventy pounds but had paid her only ten per cent of it.

AB again applied to the Royal Literary Fund and received twenty pounds, as she had done two years previously; this is her last known application.

An application to the Royal Literary Fund was secretly made on SW 's behalf by a relation of Elizabeth Heyrick (perhaps her mother) and the publisher Richard Phillips ; they got her a grant of...

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.

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...

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.

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...

After months of steadily deepening poverty, ML wrote to Thomas Carlyle , whom she greatly admired, asking him to obtain her financial assistance from the Royal Literary Fund .

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.