Civil List

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Strutt
At the time that her Civil List pension was awarded in 1863, ES was said to be seriously in need of money.
Wealth and Poverty Frances Browne
Despite an annual Civil List pension of a hundred pounds, and payments totalling £120 from the Royal Literary Fund over the past seven years, FB declared bankruptcy.
McLean, Thomas. “Arms and the Circassian Woman: Frances Browne’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Star of Attéghéi</span&gt”;. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
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, No. 3, West Virginia University Press, pp. 295-18.
298, 315n11
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Wealth and Poverty Thomas Moore
He received a literary pension in 1835 and a civil-list pension in 1850.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wealth and Poverty Alfred Tennyson
On the strength of his 1842 Poems, AT received a Civil List pension of £200 per year.
Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan.
183
Wealth and Poverty Frances Browne
She was never well off, though she sought, and was granted, financial patronage from a number of sources. Early in her career Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice , the third marquess of Lansdowne, made Browne a generous payment...
Wealth and Poverty E. Nesbit
The war years brought EN financial problems which her Civil List pension failed to alleviate.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Wealth and Poverty Catharine Parr Traill
CPT had never made much from writing, and though she had inherited some money after the deaths of family members, she unwisely invested in a firm that went bankrupt. At the age of ninety-five she...
Wealth and Poverty Catherine Carswell
Her poverty was somewhat alleviated by a Civil List pension for her own and her husband's services to literature—£150 annually, of which a quarter went in income tax.
Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald.
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