Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Royal Literary Fund
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Wealth and Poverty | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | 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). |
Wealth and Poverty | Camilla Crosland | Despite the efforts of both Camilla and her mother
, their family remained subject to financial woes until Camilla's marriage. By 1848 she received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 32 Crosland, Newton. Rambles Round My Life. E. W. Allen. 363 |
Wealth and Poverty | Adelaide O'Keeffe | 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. |
Wealth and Poverty | Frances Browne | She was never well off, though she sought, and was granted, financial patronage from a number of sources. Early in her career Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
, the third marquess of Lansdowne, made Browne a generous payment... |
Wealth and Poverty | Selina Davenport | SD
appealed to the Royal Literary Fund
for financial aid of thirty pounds, while her husband
, who himself had been receiving money from the fund since 1809 without her knowing it, tried to block... |
Wealth and Poverty | Susanna Watts | 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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Julia Young | 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. Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18. letter 1 |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Ann Browne | 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. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Charlotte Lennox | 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. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 317-44. 328 Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
had not worked for over a year and was destitute. She applied for help to the Royal Literary Fund
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Alicia Tyndal Palmer | ATP
appealed for money, apparently for the first time, to the Royal Literary Fund
, which made her a grant of £20. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Selina Bunbury | 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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | 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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Bannerman | These bereavements also deprived her of the means of support. (Her mother had had a life annuity; no pension was forthcoming on the death of her brother.) Her friends attempted to find her patrons or... |
Wealth and Poverty | Selina Bunbury | 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
. Fyfe, Aileen. Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain. University of Chicago Press. 222-3 |
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