Civil List

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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...
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.
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Wealth and Poverty Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
MADH , now a widow, received a Civil List pension of £100 a year in recognition of her husband's services.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Wealth and Poverty Louisa Stuart Costello
LSC eventually acquired a small competence
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
from the French government for her work in preserving their national heritage.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
This was augmented by a pension granted to her by the Burdett family, and in 1852 by...
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.
Wealth and Poverty Thomas Moore
He received a literary pension in 1835 and a civil-list pension in 1850.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wealth and Poverty Dinah Mulock Craik
DMC also donated her Civil List Pension to aspiring writers.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
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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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten, 1969.
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Wealth and Poverty E. Nesbit
The war years brought EN financial problems which her Civil List pension failed to alleviate.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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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 Agnes Strickland
AS was alert to her financial status, and in 1856-7 challenged the tax assessment that she received.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The Civil List pension she received on 3 August 1870 improved her financial situation.
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 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, 1986.
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