Royal Literary Fund

In a year in which it instituted a Committee of Enquiry and struck seventy-three applicants from its books (a number of them women), the Royal Literary Fund made one more grant to AB .

PG applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund , which responded by giving her five guineas.

The year after Proctor's death, MH applied to the Royal Literary Fund for a pension. She cited her need, her labours on behalf of [her] own sex, and damage to her health inflicted by her...

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

PG received £10 from the Royal Literary Fund .

That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure...

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...

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 .

HC applied (with a letter of recommendation from William Frend ) for financial help to 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

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...

RMR was in such financial straits that in 1827 (after her husband was a second time declared bankrupt) she applied for help to the Royal Literary Fund . They gave her £20 then and the...

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.