Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown.
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Reception | Jean Rhys | From 1974 she received a Civil List
pension of £500 a year in recognition of her services to literature. Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown. 605-6 |
Reception | Dorothy Richardson | DR
was gratified to hear from Whitehall
that she was granted a Civil List
Pension of £100, which recognised her contributions as a novelist. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 327 |
Reception | Isabella Banks | When in this same year IB
was turned down for a pension from the Civil List
(though she did receive a grant from the Royal Bounty Fund), she was angered by the rejection, and wrote... |
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 |
Reception | Mary Somerville | Sir Robert Peel
, then prime minister, cited MS
's eminence in science and literature Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 156 Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 151, 156 |
Reception | Emily Faithfull | A testimonial dinner was given for EF
in 1871, where she was presented with a silver tea and coffee service. Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial”. Journal of British Studies, Vol. 36 , pp. 70-98. 84 |
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 | Emma Robinson | ER
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £75 per annum for her contributions to literature. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
Reception | Anna Maria Hall | AMH
received a Civil List
pension of £100 a year as a recognition of her literary achievements and of her unexceptionable opinions. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | Agnes Strickland | AS
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £100 per annum for her contribution to historical works. 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 | Clementina Black | Through her writings, CB
sought to improve the rights of women and the rights of the working classes by encouraging legislative and economic reform. Her award of a Civil List
pension of £75 annually was... |
Reception | Cicely Hamilton | CH
was awarded a Civil List
pension for her contributions to literature. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. 309 |
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 |
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