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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. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 73 |
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. |
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, 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 | 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. |
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. 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. |
Reception | Clementina Black | Through her writings, CB
sought to improve the rights of women and the rights of the working classes by encouraging legislative and economic reform. Her award of a Civil List
pension of £75 annually was... |
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 |
Reception | Elizabeth Strutt | ES
received a Civil List
pension of £70 per annum. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
Reception | Cicely Hamilton | CH
was awarded a Civil List
pension for her contributions to literature. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. 309 |
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 |
Reception | Frances Browne | In 1863 FB
was awarded a Civil List
pension on account of her works in prose and poetry, composed in spite of blindness existing from birth. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (11 June 1863): 13 |
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