Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
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Reception | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
was granted by Lord Melbourne
a Civil List
pension of £100 per annum, with the hope of an increase later. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 195, 197 |
Reception | Frances Browne | In 1863 FB
was awarded a Civil List
pension on account of her works in prose and poetry, composed in spite of blindness existing from birth. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (11 June 1863): 13 |
Reception | Emily Hickey | In old age EH
was awarded a Civil List
pension. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 171 |
Reception | Frances Sarah Hoey | FSH
was granted a Civil List
pension of £50 a year, at a time when her recent widowhood made it badly needed. Edwards, Peter David. Frances Cashel Hoey, 1830-1908: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland. 29 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | E. Nesbit | In 1915 EN
was granted a Civil List
pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 365-6 |
Reception | Frances Eleanor Trollope | FET
was awarded a Civil List
Pension in 1893, the year after Thomas
had died. Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press. 340 Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Reception | Eliza Cook | EC
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £100 for literary merit. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Mary Howitt | Shortly after her husband
's death, Mary Howitt
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £100 per annum in recognition of her services to literature. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
Reception | Sarah Tytler | ST
was granted a Civil List
pension, an award whose existence she felt was surely justifiable in connection with a profession whose members give profit and pleasure to many, while the big prizes of the... |
Reception | Louisa Stuart Costello | LSC
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £75 per annum in recognition of her services to literature. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Reception | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £100 in recognition of her literary merits. Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press. 191 Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press. xiii |
Reception | Julia Pardoe | JP
was granted a Civil List
pension of £100. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock
received a Civil List
pension of £60 annually. Fredeman, William E., and Ira Bruce Nadel, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 35. Gale Research. 35: 42 Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
Reception | Sarah Austin | SA
received a Civil List
pension of £100 in consideration of the services which she has rendered to literature, especially by her translation of German works. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
Reception | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
(or Speranza), was granted a £300 Civil List
pension recognising her services to literature, but it did not rescue her from poverty. Glendinning, Victoria. “Speranza: A Leaning Tower of Courage”. Genius in the Drawing-Room, edited by Peter Quennell, Weidenfield and Nicolson, pp. 101-16. 109 “PGIL EIRData (Electronic Irish Records Dataset)”. The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco). |
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