Civil List

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1986.
92
Wealth and Poverty Emily Faithfull
In spite of this business, EF was the recipient of charitable supplements to her income. She was allotted £100 from the royal bounty in November 1886, and was granted an annual pension of £50 from...
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 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 Clementina Black
CB was awarded a Civil List pension of £75.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.
36
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.
187
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.
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