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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Strutt | At the time that her Civil List
pension was awarded in 1863, ES
was said to be seriously in need of money. |
| Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | |
| Wealth and Poverty | Alfred Tennyson | On the strength of his 1842 Poems, AT
received a Civil List
pension of £200 per year. Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan, 1972. 183 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Catharine Parr Traill | CPT
had never made much from writing, and though she had inherited some money after the deaths of family members, she unwisely invested in a firm that went bankrupt. At the age of ninety-five she... |
| 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, 1945. 340 Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
| 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... |
| 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, 1911. 329-30 |
| Occupation | Queen Victoria | That month, Parliament awarded QV
an annual Civil List
Pension of £385,000 for the rest of her life; in addition, she received revenues from the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964. 73 |
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