Thompson, Dorothy. Queen Victoria: Gender and Power. Virago Press.
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Prince Albert
Standard Name: Albert, Prince
Used Form: Prince Consort
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Clementina Black | CB
's maternal grandfather, George Patten
, was Portrait Painter in Ordinary to the Prince Consort
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
's husband, Sir Charles Eastlake
, accepted the post of Director of the National Gallery, at the urging of the Prime Minister
and Prince Albert
. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 103 Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press. 2: 32-3 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | Princess Victoria had many cousins, the most significant of whom was Albert
, her future husband. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 52 |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Isabella Duberly | Queen Victoria
, with Prince Albert
and their eldest daughter
, reviewed the Eighth Hussars
at Portsmouth on their return from the Crimean War. She bowed deeply to FID
, though she did not speak to her. Duberly, Frances Isabella. “Editor’s Introduction”. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6, edited by Christine Kelly, Oxford University Press, p. xi - xlviii. xxxiii-xxxiv |
| Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
| Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Lewes
, who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters, Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 3: 10 |
| Literary Setting | Queen Victoria | Unlike the flowery language of her editor, QV
's diction is simple and the prose style concise. Although the journal entries make implicit references to class, the omission of overt discussions of governmental affairs and... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Harriet Smythies | She wrote this poem, she said in her preface, during the violent and unjust, but luckily short-lived, popular outcry against the Prince Consort
. An illness prevented her from getting it into print until the... |
| Occupation | Queen Victoria | QV
opened Parliament for the first time since Prince Albert
's death nearly five years before. Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press. xvii |
| Other Life Event | Florence Nightingale | Queen Victoria
wrote to her during the war, and after the peace spoke highly of her achievements abroad. The monarch sent her a personal letter and an engraved, enameled, and jeweled brooch designed by the... |
| Other Life Event | Elizabeth Rigby | Some time in 1844 ER
had her picture taken by David Octavius Hill
and Robert Adamson
. The resulting Talbotype, entitled Elizabeth Rigby, was the first example of photography viewed by Prince Albert
. Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland. 137 |
| politics | Queen Victoria | |
| Publishing | Caroline Norton | CN
published in Macmillan's Magazine an elegy on Prince Albert
, entitled Gone! Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby. 272-3 |
Timeline
26 November 1891: A private command performance of Mascagni's...
Building item
26 November 1891
A private command performance of Mascagni
's Cavalleria Rusticana was presented at Windsor Castle for Queen Victoria
.
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