Civil List

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1987.
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She evidently...
Reception Frances Sarah Hoey
FSH was granted a Civil List pension of £50 a year, at a time when her recent widowhood made it badly needed.
Edwards, Peter David. Frances Cashel Hoey, 1830-1908: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland, 1982.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Reception Mary Somerville
Sir Robert Peel , then prime minister, cited MS 's eminence in science and literature
qtd. in
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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and placed her on the Civil List , entitling her to an annual pension of £200.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
151, 156
Reception Mary Howitt
Shortly after her husband 's death, Mary Howitt was awarded a Civil List pension of £100 per annum in recognition of her services to literature.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889.
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, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Textual Production Beatrice Harraden
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
In 1930 she was awarded an annual...
Textual Production Matilda Hays
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:...
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 .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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, 2000.
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Wealth and Poverty Anna Brownell Jameson
Over the course of her life ABJ was often financially pressed, in large part owing to the demands of her dependent mother, father, two unmarried sisters, and her niece. Her husband provided her with an...
Wealth and Poverty Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
The Civil List pension awarded to JFLW in 1890 did not prevent her from dying in poverty.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.
408
Wealth and Poverty Dorothy Richardson
DR also accepted financial assistance from friends and other sources. Early in their friendship Bryher established a trust fund that yielded Richardson £250 annually. She also committed £120, tax free, to Richardson for each year...
Wealth and Poverty Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ unsuccessfully applied for a Civil List pension.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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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 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 Brownes The Star of AttéghéiVictorian Poetry, Vol.
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, No. 3, West Virginia University Press, 2003, 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.
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