Civil List

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Agnes Strickland
AS was alert to her financial status, and in 1856-7 challenged the tax assessment that she received.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The Civil List pension she received on 3 August 1870 improved her financial situation.
Wealth and Poverty Caroline Bowles
Southey left her only £2,000. His children received much larger inheritances. In 1854 her financial situation was eased when she was awarded an annual Civil List pension of £200. It appears that the pension was...
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.
41
, 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.
199
Wealth and Poverty Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
MADH , now a widow, received a Civil List pension of £100 a year in recognition of her husband's services.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wealth and Poverty Mary Russell Mitford
Following her father 's death, some of MRM 's friends organized a public subscription to pay off his debts; it grew to £2,000, some of which remained to increase her Civil List income.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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
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 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 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.
165
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.
365-6
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 Margaret Oliphant
After having met MO in March, Queen Victoria granted her a Civil List pension of £100 per annum.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
92
Wealth and Poverty Sarah Tytler
Having heard that ST suffered from lack of money, Williams willed her £2,000 before her death in 1868. Unfortunately, the legacy was disputed in court by distant relatives and Tytler never received it.
Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray.
329-30
It...
Wealth and Poverty Louisa Stuart Costello
LSC eventually acquired a small competence
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
from the French government for her work in preserving their national heritage.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
This was augmented by a pension granted to her by the Burdett family, and in 1852 by...

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