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.
This estimate...
Wealth and Poverty
Adelaide O'Keeffe
AOK
was awarded a pension from the Crown of £50 a year: half, that is, what her father
had been receiving from the same source at the time of his death.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
