Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald.
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Wealth and Poverty | Catherine Carswell | 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. Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald. 165 |
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. |
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:... |
Reception | Eliza Cook | EC
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £100 for literary merit. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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. 29 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 |
Reception | Frances Eleanor Trollope | FET
was awarded a Civil List
Pension in 1893, the year after Thomas
had died. Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press. 340 Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Reception | Louisa Stuart Costello | LSC
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £75 per annum in recognition of her services to literature. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
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. |
Reception | Sarah Tytler | ST
was granted a Civil List
pension, an award whose existence she felt was surely justifiable in connection with a profession whose members give profit and pleasure to many, while the big prizes of the... |
Reception | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £100 in recognition of her literary merits. Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press. 191 Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press. xiii |
Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock
received a Civil List
pension of £60 annually. Fredeman, William E., and Ira Bruce Nadel, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 35. Gale Research. 35: 42 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. |
Reception | Sarah Austin | SA
received a Civil List
pension of £100 in consideration of the services which she has rendered to literature, especially by her translation of German works. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
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