Civil List

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1889.
Reception Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde (or Speranza), was granted a £300 Civil List pension recognising her services to literature, but it did not rescue her from poverty.
qtd. in
Glendinning, Victoria. “Speranza: A Leaning Tower of Courage”. Genius in the Drawing-Room, edited by Peter Quennell, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1980, pp. 101-16.
109
“PGIL EIRData (Electronic Irish Records Dataset)”. The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco).
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, 1977.
327
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...
Reception Geraldine Jewsbury
Geraldine Jewsbury was awarded a Civil List pension of £40 per annum for her services to literature (three years after she had applied unsuccessfully for the same award).
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
xi
Reception Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Following the death of her husband , JFLW wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom , hoping he could help secure her a government pension.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
143
In his reply, Larcom explained that only the Prime Minister could...
Reception Jean Rhys
From 1974 she received a Civil List pension of ¥500 a year in recognition of her services to literature.
qtd. in
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown, 1990.
605-6
She was delighted to receive a Royal Garden Party invitation in 1975, for her contributions...
Reception Julia Pardoe
JP was granted a Civil List pension of ¥100.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889.
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
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...
Reception Harriet Martineau
HM was offered a Civil List pension by the Whig government, which she refused on principle.
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
355, 364
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 504-5
Reception Eliza Meteyard
Eliza Meteyard received her first Civil List pension of £60 per annum for her services to literature.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889.
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, 1945.
340
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Reception Eliza Meteyard
Eliza Meteyard received a second Civil List pension of £40 per annum in addition to the £60 she had been granted five years before.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889.

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.