Civil List

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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
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...
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).
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
Reception Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Following the death of her husband , JFLW wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom , hoping he could help secure her a government pension.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray.
143
In his reply, Larcom explained that only the Prime Minister could...
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
Reception Geraldine Jewsbury
Geraldine Jewsbury was awarded a Civil List pension of £40 per annum for her services to literature (three years after she had applied unsuccessfully for the same award).
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
xi
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 Lucas Malet
During this year she was awarded a civil-list pension in recognition of her literary work.
Reception Harriet Martineau
HM was offered a Civil List pension by the Whig government, which she refused on principle.
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
355, 364
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago.
2: 504-5
Reception Eliza Meteyard
Eliza Meteyard received her first Civil List pension of £60 per annum for her services to literature.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher.
Reception Eliza Meteyard
Eliza Meteyard received a second Civil List pension of £40 per annum in addition to the £60 she had been granted five years before.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher.
Reception Charlotte Mew
CM was awarded a Civil List pension of £75 a year on the recommendation of John Masefield , Thomas Hardy , and Walter de la Mare .
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, p. vii - xx.
xv
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research.
311
Wealth and Poverty Mary Russell Mitford
Following her father 's death, some of MRM 's friends organized a public subscription to pay off his debts; it grew to £2,000, some of which remained to increase her Civil List income.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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

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