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Reception | Anna Maria Hall | AMH
received a Civil List
pension of £100 a year as a recognition of her literary achievements and of her unexceptionable opinions. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Wealth and Poverty | Anna Maria Hall | AMH
's Civil List
pension, awarded in 1868, helped the Halls' financial situation considerably. On 20 September 1874, when they celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary, they received both a substantial lump sum and an annuity... |
Reception | Emily Faithfull | A testimonial dinner was given for EF
in 1871, where she was presented with a silver tea and coffee service. Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial”. Journal of British Studies, Vol. 36 , pp. 70-98. 84 |
Wealth and Poverty | Emily Faithfull | In spite of this business, EF
was the recipient of charitable supplements to her income. She was allotted £100 from the royal bounty in November 1886, and was granted an annual pension of £50 from... |
Wealth and Poverty | Margiad Evans | Money was always tight throughout ME
's life. She began her writing career relying on her father's tiny pension to supplement her earnings from intermittent paid work, and it was a problem for her when... |
Wealth and Poverty | Amelia B. Edwards | Late in her life ABE
was granted a pension on the Civil List
, of seventy-five pounds annually. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock
received a Civil List
pension of £60 annually. Fredeman, William E., and Ira Bruce Nadel, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 35. Gale Research. 35: 42 Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
Wealth and Poverty | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
also donated her Civil List
Pension to aspiring writers. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 18 |
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. |
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/. |
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 | 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... |
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