Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. 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 | Mary Somerville | Sir Robert Peel
, then prime minister, cited MS
's eminence in science and literature qtd. in Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983. 156 Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983. 151, 156 |
Reception | Mary Howitt | Shortly after her husband
's death, Mary Howitt
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £100 per annum in recognition of her services to literature. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889. |
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 | 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 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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 |
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 | 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... |
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