Civil List

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Jean Rhys
From 1974 she received a Civil List pension of £500 a year in recognition of her services to literature.
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown.
605-6
She was delighted to receive a Royal Garden Party invitation in 1975, for her contributions...
Wealth and Poverty Julia Pardoe
JP 's financial situation was improved on 16 January 1860 when she was granted a £100 Civil List pension in recognition of her literary labours and her provision of financial help to relations.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher.
Reception Julia Pardoe
JP was granted a Civil List pension of £100.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher.
Textual Production Ouida
Ouida was granted a Civil List pension of £150 per year, largely through the efforts of Alfred Austin , George Wyndham , and Lady Paget .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Wealth and Poverty Margaret Oliphant
After having met MO in March, Queen Victoria granted her a Civil List pension of £100 per annum.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
92
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
Reception E. Nesbit
In 1915 EN was granted a Civil List pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
365-6
She evidently...
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 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.
Reception Mary Russell Mitford
MRM was granted by Lord Melbourne a Civil List pension of £100 per annum, with the hope of an increase later.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
2: 195, 197
Reception Charlotte Mew
CM was awarded a Civil List pension of £75 a year on the recommendation of John Masefield , Thomas Hardy , and Walter de la Mare .
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, p. vii - xx.
xv
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research.
311
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.
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.
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, 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.
2: 504-5
Wealth and Poverty Lucas Malet
During this year she was awarded a civil-list pension in recognition of her literary work.

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