Money was always tight throughout ME
's life. She began her writing career relying on her father's tiny pension to supplement her earnings from intermittent paid work, and it was a problem for her when...
Wealth and Poverty
Charlotte Riddell
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
.
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Wealth and Poverty
Maggie Gee
During the 1990s when the rejection of her novel The White Family put her in financial difficulty, the Society of Authors
(besides securing a pay-off from her publisher) gave her grant of £3,000; her friend...
