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Civil List
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 73 |
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 |
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. |
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 | Alfred Tennyson | On the strength of his 1842 Poems, AT
received a Civil List
pension of £200 per year. Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan. 183 |
Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | He turned down an honorary degree from Oxford
and a Civil List
pension. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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. |
Reception | Elizabeth Strutt | ES
received a Civil List
pension of £70 per annum. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
Reception | Agnes Strickland | AS
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £100 per annum for her contribution to historical works. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
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/. |
Reception | Mary Somerville | Sir Robert Peel
, then prime minister, cited MS
's eminence in science and literature Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 156 Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 151, 156 |
Reception | Emma Robinson | ER
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £75 per annum for her contributions to literature. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
Reception | Dorothy Richardson | DR
was gratified to hear from Whitehall
that she was granted a Civil List
Pension of £100, which recognised her contributions as a novelist. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 327 |
Wealth and Poverty | Dorothy Richardson |
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