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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. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964. 73 |
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 | 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, 1980, pp. 101-16. 109 “PGIL EIRData (Electronic Irish Records Dataset)”. The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco). |
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, 1990. 605-6 |
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, 1889. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. xi |
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 |
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, 1999. 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, 1983. 156 Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983. 151, 156 |
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 | 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, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596. 355, 364 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983. 2: 504-5 |
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 | 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, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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