Civil List

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Julia Pardoe
JP was granted a Civil List pension of ¥100.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889.
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 Frances Browne
In 1863 FB was awarded a Civil List pension on account of her works in prose and poetry, composed in spite of blindness existing from birth.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(11 June 1863): 13
Reception Harriet Martineau
HM was offered a Civil List pension by the Whig government, which she refused on principle.
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
355, 364
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 504-5
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/.
In 1930 she was awarded an annual...
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:...
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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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, 2007.
165
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 Anna Maria Hall
AMH 's Civil List pension, awarded in 1868, helped the Halls' financial situation considerably. On 20 September 1874, when they celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary, they received both a substantial lump sum and an annuity...
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, 1972.
183
Wealth and Poverty Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
MADH , now a widow, received a Civil List pension of £100 a year in recognition of her husband's services.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
from the French government for her work in preserving their national heritage.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
This was augmented by a pension granted to her by the Burdett family, and in 1852 by...
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Strutt
At the time that her Civil List pension was awarded in 1863, ES was said to be seriously in need of money.

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