Queen Victoria

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Standard Name: Victoria, Queen
Birth Name: Alexandrina Victoria
Royal Name: Queen Victoria
Titled: Queen Victoria, Empress of India
Used Form: Princess Victoria
From a young age, Queen Victoria wrote extensive journals, two of which were published with great success during her lifetime. Other selections from her journals, collections of her letters, and drawings and watercolours from her sketchbooks were published posthumously.
Black and white photograph of Queen Victoria, done for her Diamond Jubilee, 1897, by W. and D. Downey. She is seated, face in profile, holding a fan and wearing an elaborately embroidered floor-length dress, a small crown, a veil on the back of her head whose lace matches that of her skirt, a jewelled bracelet and drop earrings. National Archives of Canada.

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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 Margaret Oliphant
In the month of MO 's death there appeared Women Novelists of Queen Victoria 's Reign: A Book of Appreciations, which she edited and published with eight other women to mark the queen's jubilee.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley.
304-5
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Jan Morris
JM published Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress, an account of the expansion of the British Empire from Victoria 's accession to her jubilee in 1897. As a sibling volume to Pax Britannica (called the...
Textual Production Blanche Warre Cornish
BWC kept a diary, from which her daughter quotes a passage about Queen Victoria 's death and the pathos of the end of the Victorian age.
MacCarthy, Mary. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood. Constable.
111
Textual Production Dinah Mulock Craik
Dinah Mulock published Elizabeth and Victoria : From a Woman's Point of View in the feminist Victoria Magazine.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Unkind Word and Other Stories. Hurst and Blackett.
68
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
134
Textual Production Amelia Opie
In other late poems she had celebrated Princess Victoria (in 1836) and urged the United States to accept black people as equal to whites (in 1846).
Opie, Amelia. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press.
428, 443-4
She now gave the bazaar organizers a...
Textual Production Catherine Marsh
CM , as the Author of English Hearts and English Hands, Brief Memories of the First Earl Cairns, etc., etc. and together with her niece L. E. O'Rorke , commemorated Queen Victoria 's Golden Jubilee...
Textual Production Hester Lynch Piozzi
The observations and reflections which, to the end of her life, HLP never stopped writing down, included tireless annotation of the works of others. She confessed: I have a Trick of writing in the Margins...
Textual Production Margaret Croker
MC published, with her name, A Monody on His Late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent (father of Queen Victoria ).
Croker, Margaret. A Monody on His Late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent. Francis Westley.
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Textual Production Linda Villari
LV 's final major work, the historical novel Oswald von Wolkenstein: A Memoir of the Last Minnesinger of Tirol, was published by J. M. Dent and Company . LV wrote it at Florence and...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
JP 's The Captive of Kensington Palace, a historical novel published under this name and dealing with Princess Victoria 's childhood and adolescence, initiated the Queen Victoria series.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Plaidy, Jean. Epitaph for Three Women. Putnam.
prelims
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Maria Callcott
Some of MC 's manuscripts (owned by Rosamund Brunel Gotch in 1937) are now in the Bodleian Library . A collection of her sketches (including many of the drawings which accompanied her journal of her...
Textual Production Victoria Cross
VC 's pseudonym was apparently a complicated private joke, implying both that Cross believed she deserved recognition for her valour in defying conventional mores (the Victoria Cross being the highest British military award for heroism)...
Textual Production Emilie Barrington
Its full title was A St. Luke of the Nineteenth Century, contrasts an old-fashioned story about a few gentlemen and gentlewomen, and some others, who lived during the reign of Queen Victoria. The Chaste...
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
Soon after the new queen's wedding, AS published Queen Victoria from Her Birth to Her Bridal, an early example of the royal-watching industry.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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Timeline

1861: Publisher S. Beeton began production of Queen,...

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1861

Publisher S. Beeton began production of Queen, his successful women's magazine aimed at the rich and leisured classes.

1863: Germany and Denmark again clashed over the...

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1863

Germany and Denmark again clashed over the Schleswig-Holstein Duchies.

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.

1 August 1863: Queen Victoria, in a letter to The Ladies...

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1 August 1863

Queen Victoria , in a letter to The Ladies of England, denounced the crinoline, calling it an indelicate, expensive, dangerous, and hideous article.

19 November 1867: Queen Victoria announced that the UK was...

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19 November 1867

Queen Victoria announced that the UK was at war with Amhara.

26 July 1869: The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime...

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26 July 1869

The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime Minister Gladstone disestablished the Church of Ireland and substantially reduced its property, although it met with strong opposition from the House of Lords .

October 1870: The General Council of Edinburgh University...

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October 1870

The General Council of Edinburgh University renewed their decision to keep female students out of the medical classes.

1871: Joseph Lister's carbolic spray gained wide...

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1871

Joseph Lister 's carbolic spray gained wide acceptance as an antiseptic after it was successfully used during the removal of an abscess from Queen Victoria 's left armpit.

14 April-31 October 1873: An International Exhibition was held in London...

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14 April-31 October 1873

An International Exhibition was held in London on the model of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
27641 (19 March 1873): 5; 27834 (30 October 1873): 6

20 May 1873: Seventeen labouring-class women at Ascott-under-Wychwood...

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20 May 1873

Seventeen labouring-class women at Ascott-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire prevented two men from going to work as blacklegs to replace others whom a farmer had sacked for joining the Agricultural Workers Union .

October 1873: At the annual meeting of the Clinical Society...

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October 1873

At the annual meeting of the Clinical Society of London , physician Sir William Withey Gull applied his newly-coined label anorexia nervosa as the term for a female nervous disorder. That same year a French...

May 1876: Russia, Austria and Germany presented the...

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May 1876

Russia, Austria and Germany presented the Berlin Memorandum to the Sultan of Turkey , demanding that he inaugurate reforms in the extensive Ottoman Empire.

1878: The first telephone company in the UK began...

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1878

The first telephone company in the UK began operations, at Chislehurst, Kent; it enabled private communication by phone between two points only.

3 August 1881: The Seventh International Medical Congress...

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3 August 1881

The Seventh International Medical Congress was officially opened in London by the Prince of Wales, bringing medical science onto an international public stage, albeit an all-male one.

1883: A French observer, Hector France, noted that...

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1883

A French observer, Hector France , noted that condoms were packaged with colour pictures of Prime Minister Gladstone and Queen Victoria and sold in Petticoat Lane, London.

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