Civil List

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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/.
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
Reception Eliza Meteyard
Eliza Meteyard received a second Civil List pension of £40 per annum in addition to the £60 she had been granted five years before.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889.
Reception Eliza Cook
EC was awarded a Civil List pension of £100 for literary merit.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Reception Cicely Hamilton
CH was awarded a Civil List pension for her contributions to literature.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
309
Reception Charlotte Mew
CM was awarded a Civil List pension of £75 a year on the recommendation of John Masefield , Thomas Hardy , and Walter de la Mare .
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, 1953, p. vii - xx.
xv
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
311
Reception Louisa Stuart Costello
LSC was awarded a Civil List pension of £75 per annum in recognition of her services to literature.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Reception Elizabeth Strutt
ES received a Civil List pension of £70 per annum.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889.
Reception Mary Russell Mitford
MRM was granted by Lord Melbourne a Civil List pension of £100 per annum, with the hope of an increase later.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 195, 197
Reception Dinah Mulock Craik
Dinah Mulock received a Civil List pension of £60 annually.
Fredeman, William E., and Ira Bruce Nadel, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 35. Gale Research, 1985.
35: 42
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889.
Reception Sarah Austin
SA received a Civil List pension of £100 in consideration of the services which she has rendered to literature, especially by her translation of German works.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889.
Reception Agnes Strickland
AS was awarded a Civil List pension of £100 per annum for her contribution to historical works.
Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889.
Reception Emily Hickey
In old age EH was awarded a Civil List pension.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 171
Despite this, Dinnis notes that to the literary world she looked in vain for what had been hers in days gone by. Nor...
Reception Frances Sarah Hoey
FSH was granted a Civil List pension of £50 a year, at a time when her recent widowhood made it badly needed.
Edwards, Peter David. Frances Cashel Hoey, 1830-1908: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland, 1982.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Reception Isabella Banks
When in this same year IB was turned down for a pension from the Civil List (though she did receive a grant from the Royal Bounty Fund), she was angered by the rejection, and wrote...

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