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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. |
Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | |
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 | 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... |
Reception | Frances Eleanor Trollope | FET
was awarded a Civil List
Pension in 1893, the year after Thomas
had died. Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press. 340 Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Reception | Sarah Tytler | ST
was granted a Civil List
pension, an award whose existence she felt was surely justifiable in connection with a profession whose members give profit and pleasure to many, while the big prizes of the... |
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 |
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 |
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