Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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Prince Albert
Standard Name: Albert, Prince
Used Form: Prince Consort
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
anonymously published The Late Prince Consort in the January 1862 Quarterly Review, only a month after Prince Albert
's death. Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 1: 744 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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. ix Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell. 214 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | There was much political turmoil amongst Members of Parliament on public notification of the marriage, owing to the prince's German heritage and Victoria's position of power combined with her gender and her youth. Albert
was... |
| politics | Queen Victoria | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | He attracted her attention when he contactedAlbert
in the world beyond, and transmitted a message which included Albert's secret pet-name. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 334 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | John Brown
, a Highlander, had first entered the service of the royal family in 1851; Victoria's biographer Elizabeth Longford
says she first mentioned him in her journal on 11 September 1849. After Prince Albert |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | The queen was grief-stricken at his death. Her devastation resembled that which she had experienced after the death of Prince Albert
. In a letter to her secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby
, she compared the... |
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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