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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. |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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 | Sarah Tytler | 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. Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray. 329-30 |
Wealth and Poverty | Louisa Stuart Costello | LSC
eventually acquired a small competence Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
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 | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
also donated her Civil List
Pension to aspiring writers. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 18 |
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. 187 |
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. |
Wealth and Poverty | Isabella Banks | Having struggled with poverty for years, IB
was nominated for a pension from the Civil List
; she was refused this, but was granted £200 by the Royal Bounty Fund
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten. 117 |
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