Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Civil List
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964. 73 |
Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | He turned down an honorary degree from Oxford
and a Civil List
pension. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Sarah Austin | SA
received a Civil List
pension of £100 in consideration of the services which she has rendered to literature, especially by her translation of German works. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889. |
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, 1889. |
Reception | Emily Hickey | In old age EH
was awarded a Civil List
pension. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 171 |
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 | E. Nesbit | In 1915 EN
was granted a Civil List
pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 365-6 |
Reception | Frances Sarah Hoey | FSH
was granted a Civil List
pension of £50 a year, at a time when her recent widowhood made it badly needed. Edwards, Peter David. Frances Cashel Hoey, 1830-1908: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland, 1982. 29 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Mary Somerville | Sir Robert Peel
, then prime minister, cited MS
's eminence in science and literature qtd. in Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983. 156 Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983. 151, 156 |
Reception | Mary Howitt | Shortly after her husband
's death, Mary Howitt
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £100 per annum in recognition of her services to literature. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889. |
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 , 1997, pp. 70-98. 84 |
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, 1889. |
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, 1967. 191 Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997. xiii |
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. qtd. in Glendinning, Victoria. “Speranza: A Leaning Tower of Courage”. Genius in the Drawing-Room, edited by Peter Quennell, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1980, pp. 101-16. 109 “PGIL EIRData (Electronic Irish Records Dataset)”. The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco). |
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, 1977. 327 |
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