Royal Literary Fund

HRM first applied for help to the Royal Literary Fund , not as an author but as an author's wife. Six days later she wrote again humbly mentioning her own little works.

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.

EP applied for help to the recently founded Literary Fund (later the Royal Literary Fund), detailing the various financial accidents and reverses that had so far befallen her.

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

DPC had not worked for over a year and was destitute. She applied for help to the Royal Literary Fund .

By the time JFLW moved to Oakley Street, her finances were greatly reduced. A day after arriving at the new house, she asked to borrow a sovereign from Constance . Proper household management became difficult...

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).

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...

Attempting to get up a subscription which would make her next novel a more lucrative prospect, she confronted, like many middle-class women in financial difficulty, the fact that their claim to respect would be judged...

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...

From the time of her first husband's death, IK lived in poverty. Henrietta Fordyce , whose life she wrote, died without finishing the will in which she intended to leave her a bequest. IK was...

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 .

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.

She applied to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance because of her poverty. Her application said she was paying five shillings a week in rent, and could reduce that to two shillings if she was...

EFC asked the Royal Literary Fund for fifteen pounds with which to pay her baker's bill; the Fund recorded a payment of fifteen guineas to her this year.