Royal Literary Fund

SSW , in great distress, first received financial aid—five pounds—from the Royal Literary Fund .

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.

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

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.

PG again received £10 from the Royal Literary Fund .

In 1806 Charles Lamb reported that the Holcroft family were reduced to poverty.The next few years brought them close to starvation. FH waited until after her father's death before seeking aid from the Royal Literary Fund

SSW , facing prison for a debt of one pound nine shillings, incurred when a window got broken, told the Royal Literary Fund , I am of that sex whose earnings at the best of...

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.

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...

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.

PG was one of those whose applications this year to the Royal Literary Fund were rejected as questionable.