Civil List

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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.
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.
191
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press.
xiii
Reception Julia Pardoe
JP was granted a Civil List pension of £100.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher.
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.
35: 42
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher.
Textual Production Beatrice Harraden
BH is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
In 1930 she was awarded an annual...
Textual Production Matilda Hays
In 1847, while still in her twenties, MH was led by her desire to improve the lot of women to found a periodical. In the words of her later application for a Civil List pension:...
Textual Production Ouida
Ouida was granted a Civil List pension of £150 per year, largely through the efforts of Alfred Austin , George Wyndham , and Lady Paget .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Wealth and Poverty Julia Pardoe
JP 's financial situation was improved on 16 January 1860 when she was granted a £100 Civil List pension in recognition of her literary labours and her provision of financial help to relations.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher.
Wealth and Poverty Dinah Mulock Craik
DMC also donated her Civil List Pension to aspiring writers.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
18
Wealth and Poverty Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ unsuccessfully applied for a Civil List pension.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
187
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.
Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten.
117
Wealth and Poverty Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
The Civil List pension awarded to JFLW in 1890 did not prevent her from dying in poverty.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press.
408
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 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 Katharine S. Macquoid
KSM was granted a pension on the Civil List when she was seventy. Although it later went up from £50 to £120 she still found it hard to make ends meet, and several times applied...

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