The year after issuing her final publication, the nearly seventy-year-old CR
became the first writer to receive a pension—of sixty pounds a year—from the Society of Authors
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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