Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Frances Bellerby | FB
's poverty (which had made Charles Causley
and others urge her to apply for help to the Royal Literary Fund
) was alleviated by a small pension from the Civil List
for services to literature. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Margaret Oliphant | After having met MO
in March, Queen Victoria
granted her a Civil List
pension of £100 per annum. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press, 1986. 92 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Emily Faithfull | In spite of this business, EF
was the recipient of charitable supplements to her income. She was allotted £100 from the royal bounty in November 1886, and was granted an annual pension of £50 from... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
was short of money in her later years, and applied unsuccessfully to Gladstone
for help out of the Civil List
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Clementina Black | CB
was awarded a Civil List
pension of £75. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000. 36 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Anna Brownell Jameson | Over the course of her life ABJ
was often financially pressed, in large part owing to the demands of her dependent mother, father, two unmarried sisters, and her niece. Her husband provided her with an... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | The Civil List
pension awarded to JFLW
in 1890 did not prevent her from dying in poverty. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000. 408 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Dorothy Richardson | |
| Wealth and Poverty | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
unsuccessfully applied for a Civil List
pension. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 187 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Caroline Bowles | Southey
left her only £2,000. His children received much larger inheritances. In 1854 her financial situation was eased when she was awarded an annual Civil List
pension of £200. It appears that the pension was... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Frances Browne | Despite an annual Civil List
pension of a hundred pounds, and payments totalling £120 from the Royal Literary Fund
over the past seven years, FB
declared bankruptcy. McLean, Thomas. “Arms and the Circassian Woman: Frances Brownes The Star of AttéghéiVictorian Poetry, Vol. 41 , No. 3, West Virginia University Press, 2003, pp. 295-18. 298, 315n11 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Katharine S. Macquoid | KSM
was granted a pension on the Civil List
when she was seventy. Although it later went up from £50 to £120 she still found it hard to make ends meet, and several times applied... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Julia Pardoe | JP
's financial situation was improved on 16 January 1860 when she was granted a ¥100 Civil List
pension in recognition of her literary labours and her provision of financial help to relations. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher, 1889. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Lucas Malet | During this year she was awarded a civil-list
pension in recognition of her literary work. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Frances Browne | She was never well off, though she sought, and was granted, financial patronage from a number of sources. Early in her career Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
, the third marquess of Lansdowne, made Browne a generous payment... |
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