Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Margaret Oliphant | |
| Wealth and Poverty | Sarah Tytler | Having heard that ST
suffered from lack of money, Williams willed her £2,000 before her death in 1868. Unfortunately, the legacy was disputed in court by distant relatives and Tytler never received it. Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray. 329-30 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Louisa Stuart Costello | LSC
eventually acquired a small competence Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Anna Brownell Jameson | Over the course of her life ABJ
was often financially pressed, in large part owing to the demands of her dependent mother, father, two unmarried sisters, and her niece. Her husband provided her with an... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Julia Pardoe | JP
's financial situation was improved on 16 January 1860 when she was granted a £100 Civil List
pension in recognition of her literary labours and her provision of financial help to relations. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
also donated her Civil List
Pension to aspiring writers. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 18 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
unsuccessfully applied for a Civil List
pension. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 187 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Isabella Banks | Having struggled with poverty for years, IB
was nominated for a pension from the Civil List
; she was refused this, but was granted £200 by the Royal Bounty Fund
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten. 117 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | The Civil List
pension awarded to JFLW
in 1890 did not prevent her from dying in poverty. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 408 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Amelia B. Edwards | Late in her life ABE
was granted a pension on the Civil List
, of seventy-five pounds annually. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Margiad Evans | 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... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Katharine S. Macquoid | 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... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Dorothy Richardson | |
| Wealth and Poverty | Frances Bellerby | FB
's poverty (which had made Charles Causley
and others urge her to apply for help to the Royal Literary Fund
) was alleviated by a small pension from the Civil List
for services to literature. Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press. 39 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Emily Faithfull | In spite of this business, EF
was the recipient of charitable supplements to her income. She was allotted £100 from the royal bounty in November 1886, and was granted an annual pension of £50 from... |
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