Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press.
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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 |
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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