Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Connections
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Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | |
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. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964. 73 |
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, 1993. 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, 1889. |
Reception | Frances Eleanor Trollope | FET
was awarded a Civil List
Pension in 1893, the year after Thomas
had died. Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press, 1945. 340 Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
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, 1889. |
Reception | Eliza Cook | EC
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £100 for literary merit. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Cicely Hamilton | CH
was awarded a Civil List
pension for her contributions to literature. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. 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, 1953, p. vii - xx. xv Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983. 311 |
Reception | Louisa Stuart Costello | LSC
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £75 per annum in recognition of her services to literature. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
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, 1870, 2 vols. 2: 195, 197 |
Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock
received a Civil List
pension of £60 annually. Fredeman, William E., and Ira Bruce Nadel, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 35. Gale Research, 1985. 35: 42 Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889. |
Reception | Elizabeth Strutt | ES
received a Civil List
pension of £70 per annum. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889. |
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 | 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 |
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