Civil List

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...

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...

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.

During this year she was awarded a civil-list pension in recognition of her literary work.

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.

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...

Having heard that ST suffered from lack of money, Williams willed her £2,000 before her death in 1868. Unfortunately, the legacy was disputed in court by distant relatives and Tytler never received it. It...

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.