Civil List

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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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 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 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 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 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...
Wealth and Poverty Lucas Malet
During this year she was awarded a civil-list pension in recognition of her literary work.
Wealth and Poverty Dorothy Richardson
DR also accepted financial assistance from friends and other sources. Early in their friendship Bryher established a trust fund that yielded Richardson £250 annually. She also committed £120, tax free, to Richardson for each year...
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.
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Wealth and Poverty Matilda Betham-Edwards
MBE was short of money in her later years, and applied unsuccessfully to Gladstone for help out of the Civil List .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wealth and Poverty Clementina Black
CB was awarded a Civil List pension of £75.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press.
36
Wealth and Poverty Anna Maria Hall
AMH 's Civil List pension, awarded in 1868, helped the Halls' financial situation considerably. On 20 September 1874, when they celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary, they received both a substantial lump sum and an annuity...

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