Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher.
Civil List
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. |
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 |
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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Frances Bellerby | FB
's poverty (which had made Charles Causley
and others urge her to apply for help to the Royal Literary Fund
) was alleviated by a small pension from the Civil List
for services to literature. Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press. 39 |
Wealth and Poverty | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
was short of money in her later years, and applied unsuccessfully to Gladstone
for help out of the Civil List
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Wealth and Poverty | Clementina Black | CB
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £75. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 36 |
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... |
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>”;. 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 |
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 |
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 | 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 |
Reception | Eliza Cook | EC
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £100 for literary merit. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Louisa Stuart Costello | LSC
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £75 per annum in recognition of her services to literature. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
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. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
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