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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 | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
was short of money in her later years, and applied unsuccessfully to Gladstone
for help out of the Civil List
. |
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 |
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/. |
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... |
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 | Mary Russell Mitford | Following her father
's death, some of MRM
's friends organized a public subscription to pay off his debts; it grew to £2,000, some of which remained to increase her Civil List
income. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
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. |
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 |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | MADH
, now a widow, received a Civil List
pension of £100 a year in recognition of her husband's services. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Wealth and Poverty | Thomas Moore | He received a literary pension in 1835 and a civil-list
pension in 1850. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | 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 | E. Nesbit | The war years brought EN
financial problems which her Civil List
pension failed to alleviate. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 365-6 |
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... |
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