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Occupation Queen Victoria
That month, Parliament awarded QV an annual Civil List Pension of £385,000 for the rest of her life; in addition, she received revenues from the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
73
Occupation Algernon Charles Swinburne
He turned down an honorary degree from Oxford and a Civil List pension.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Reception Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ was awarded a Civil List pension of £100 in recognition of her literary merits.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
191
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
xiii
Reception Emily Faithfull
A testimonial dinner was given for EF in 1871, where she was presented with a silver tea and coffee service.
Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial”. Journal of British Studies, Vol.
36
, 1997, pp. 70-98.
84
She received from the Queen in 1888 an engraved portrait, personally inscribed, in recognition...
Reception Emma Robinson
ER was awarded a Civil List pension of £75 per annum for her contributions to literature.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889.
Reception Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde (or Speranza), was granted a £300 Civil List pension recognising her services to literature, but it did not rescue her from poverty.
qtd. in
Glendinning, Victoria. “Speranza: A Leaning Tower of Courage”. Genius in the Drawing-Room, edited by Peter Quennell, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1980, pp. 101-16.
109
“PGIL EIRData (Electronic Irish Records Dataset)”. The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco).
Reception Dorothy Richardson
DR was gratified to hear from Whitehall that she was granted a Civil List Pension of £100, which recognised her contributions as a novelist.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977.
327
Reception Clementina Black
Through her writings, CB sought to improve the rights of women and the rights of the working classes by encouraging legislative and economic reform. Her award of a Civil List pension of £75 annually was...
Reception Geraldine Jewsbury
Geraldine Jewsbury was awarded a Civil List pension of £40 per annum for her services to literature (three years after she had applied unsuccessfully for the same award).
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
xi
Reception Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Following the death of her husband , JFLW wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom , hoping he could help secure her a government pension.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
143
In his reply, Larcom explained that only the Prime Minister could...
Reception Jean Rhys
From 1974 she received a Civil List pension of ¥500 a year in recognition of her services to literature.
qtd. in
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown, 1990.
605-6
She was delighted to receive a Royal Garden Party invitation in 1975, for her contributions...
Reception Julia Pardoe
JP was granted a Civil List pension of ¥100.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889.
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 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 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

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