Civil List

ABJ was awarded a Civil List pension of £100 in recognition of her literary merits.

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.

DR was gratified to hear from Whitehall that she was granted a Civil List Pension of £100, which recognised her contributions as a novelist.

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...

Ouida was granted a Civil List pension of £150 per year, largely through the efforts of Alfred Austin , George Wyndham , and Lady Paget .

BH is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life. In 1930 she was awarded an annual...

In 1847, while still in her twenties, MH was led by her desire to improve the lot of women to found a periodical. In the words of her later application for a Civil List pension:...

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...

KSM was granted a pension on the Civil List when she was seventy. Although it later went up from £50 to £120 she still found it hard to make ends meet, and several times applied...

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.

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.

During this year she was awarded a civil-list pension in recognition of her literary work.

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. It...

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...

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.