Prince Albert

Standard Name: Albert, Prince
Used Form: Prince Consort

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Wealth and Poverty Adelaide O'Keeffe
In the same year the Royal Literary Fund paid her another twenty pounds and Prince Albert personally sent her five pounds.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Violence Queen Victoria
An assassination attempt was made on QV , pregnant with her first child, as she and Albert drove in an open carriage.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
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Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ada Cambridge
The first section of Echoes, which comprises nearly ninety percent of the book, includes several poems that describe personal and historical events of importance to the author with fervently religious language. Five of these...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Smythies
The first canto of the poem, in a mix of heroic couplets and quatrains in the same iambic pentameter line, expresses loyal indignation at the cowardly tumult raised against a prince who is defenceless as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Queen Victoria
This is the second volume of letters between Victoria and her eldest daughter that Fulford edited. Written around and following Prince Albert 's death, they trace the tremendous grief and public withdrawal of Victoria's early...
Textual Production Dinah Mulock Craik
The essay compares the two queens, contrasting Elizabeth for her masculine intellect, and iron will . . . and the utter blank of her domestic life with Victoria, gifted only with moderate talent, who if...
Textual Production Harriet Smythies
HS expressed her patriotism in The Prince and the People. A Poem under the name Mrs. Yorick Smythies.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1393 (1854): 845
Textual Production Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
An accident at Hartley Colliery in Northumberland provoked HET to write a poem about it; this year she also wrote of Queen Victoria 's mourning for Prince Albert .
Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Rhymes and Legends. Richard Bentley and Son.
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Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
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Textual Production Florence Nightingale
The Prince Consort attended the reading. The piece was translated into French the same year.
Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses.
101
Textual Production Florence Nightingale
It was written in response to the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India and provided a shortened, and more accessible, version of FN 's report on the commission's findings.
Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses.
57, 63
Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
She had already written about More, twenty-six years earlier, in Biographies of Good Women, and she was to write on her again, for young people, in The Cunning Woman's Grandson, A Tale of Cheddar...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
The first volume seems almost to be marking time since the last in the previous series, Victoria in the Wings, which had appeared in March the same year: the future queen is still a...
Textual Features Jane Porter
It takes the form of congratulations to the bridegroom , beginning with Wake Albert wake! from dreams of hope arise.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
80
Textual Features Catherine Marsh
The book was inspired by the typhoid fever which Albert Edward, Prince of Wales , suffered in December 1871. A service was held for him on the 14th, the anniversary of the death of his...
Textual Features Queen Victoria
It covers the state visit of Louis-Napoleon and Eugénie , and QV 's return visit to Paris with Albert .
Victoria, Queen, and Raymond Mortimer. Leaves from a Journal. Privately printed.

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14 November 1839: Prince Albert (future husband of Queen Victoria)...

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14 November 1839

Prince Albert (future husband of Queen Victoria) and his brother Ernest made the first railway trip in England by royalty, from London to Slough.

Early 1840: At the time of Queen Victoria's marriage...

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Early 1840

At the time of Queen Victoria 's marriage to Prince Albert , the Devon industry of hand-crafted lace-making had so far declined that it was difficult to obtain enough for her wedding dress.

21 November 1840: Prince Albert's attendance at Queen Victoria's...

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21 November 1840

Prince Albert 's attendance at Queen Victoria 's labour, in London, increased the popularity of fathers attending births.

1843: Prince Albert assumed the presidency of the...

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1843

Prince Albert assumed the presidency of the Society of Arts.

12 June 1843: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert became part...

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12 June 1843

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert became part of the theatre-going public when they visited the Drury Lane Theatre in state.

1844: The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers's...

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1844

The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers 's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation influenced the evolutionary thinking of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace .

May 1844: The Society for Improving the Condition of...

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May 1844

The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes began to work towards housing reform; the society was a revitalized and revamped version of the Labourer's Friend Society of the previous decade.

October 1846: Queen Isabella of Spain married her cousin,...

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October 1846

Queen Isabella of Spain married her cousin, despite machinations by British and French diplomats to arrange a marriage that would be politically opportune for them.

: Following a tour of inspection of working...

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Spring1848

Following a tour of inspection of working class housing, Prince Albert assumed a more active role in his presidency of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes .

1849: Prince Albert joined the Geological Society...

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1849

Prince Albert joined the Geological Society of London .

1 May 1851: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry...

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1 May 1851

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, the first world's fair, was opened by Queen Victoria in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.

1854: Queen Victoria sat for the first photographic...

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1854

Queen Victoria sat for the first photographic portraits of the royal family, taken by Roger Fenton .

May 1856: Ellen Terry made her theatrical debut at...

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May 1856

Ellen Terry made her theatrical debut at the Princess's Theatre , watched by an audience which included Queen Victoria and Prince Albert .

1859: Charles Lyell's address as president of the...

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1859

Charles Lyell 's address as president of the geological section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) supported the new consensus that humans had lived among now-extinct mammals in a Europe that...

23 April 1863: Queen Victoria selected architect George...

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23 April 1863

Queen Victoria selected architect George Gilbert Scott 's ornate design for the Albert Memorial.

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