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.

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...

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).

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.

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.

Money was always tight throughout ME 's life. She began her writing career relying on her father's tiny pension to supplement her earnings from intermittent paid work, and it was a problem for her when...

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...

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.

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...