Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher.
Civil List
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. |
Reception | Elizabeth Strutt | ES
received a Civil List
pension of £70 per annum. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
Reception | Cicely Hamilton | CH
was awarded a Civil List
pension for her contributions to literature. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. 309 |
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 |
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/. |
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:... |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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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