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History
It was founded in 1790 as the Literary Fund to provide financial assistance to authors in distress, and to their dependants
It became the Royal Literary Fund in 1842
It continues to provide financial assistance to professional published authors
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What was reforming about it?
It represented one of the first moves towards the professionalisation of literature in the UK
Where in Bloomsbury
Its first home was in Gerrard Street, Soho; it was based at 73 Great Russell Street from 1842 to about 1862
Website of current institution
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Books about it
Janet Adam Smith, The Royal Literary Fund, 1790–1990 (1990)
Nigel Cross, The Royal Literary Fund, 1790–1918: An Introduction to the Fund’s History and Archives, with an Index of Applicants (on microfilm) (1984)
Archives
The entire archive of the Fund has been microfilmed as Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790–1918 (145 reels) (1982–1983)
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