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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
published a Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. 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 | Jean Plaidy | The first-named is George I
's rejected queen
(accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover
was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel... |
| Textual Features | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Her authors run from Jane Austen
and some contemporaries to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Harriet Martineau
. Elizabeth Fry
, Mary Carpenter
, and Florence Nightingale
represent philanthropy, Caroline Herschel
and Mary Somerville
science, and... |
| Textual Features | Marina Warner | The book includes text and images gathered from over fifty albums which Queen Victoria
kept from her girlhood (beginning 13 July 1832) until her death (22 July 1901). They present a multi-faceted picture of the... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Forster | This leisurely novel centres on the relation of the present to the past, on ancestors (particularly grandmothers), and on the never-satisfied desire to know our origins. Isamay seems naive and immature: her somewhat desultory research... |
| Textual Features | Sylvia Townsend Warner | The novel is a retelling of the story of Cupid and Psyche (or Love and the Soul) by Apuleius
, with names and characteristics transposed to Victorian England. The heroine is a young orphan who... |
| Textual Features | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington
, doyenne of the albums... |
| Textual Features | Dorothy Whipple | DW
begins the book endearingly with her repeated commands to her self to go back in time, with the unwillingness of her self to leave the present, and the way it finally runs far away... |
| Textual Features | Eliza Cook | The subsidiary poems, in many different (but all simple) stanza forms, deal in love, death, separation, self-sacrifice, and nostalgia. Together, love-songs and laments for times past predominate (old is a plangent word in EC |
| Textual Features | Rumer Godden | She traced the breed from ancient China (though the London cultural attaché of Communist China denied all knowledge of these luxurious parasites) through its arrival in the west in the person of the canine... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | The unfortunate Lady Flora was headline news. A lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria
's mother, she had been suspected of illicit pregnancy. It turned out (after medical examination and humiliating publicity) that she had a disease... |
| Textual Features | Ethel Smyth | These limitations, she wrote, were a severe hindrance to the pursuit of an artistic career: The whole English attitude towards women in fields of art is ludicrous and uncivilised. There is no sex in art... |
| Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron
's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie
had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 75-6 |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The latter depicts the new monarch weeping on the assumption of the throne, moving as she is away from the protections of her mother's breast, and so from childhood. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press. 2: 108; I. 5 |
| Textual Features | Ruth Rendell | Its protagonist, Martin, Lord Nanther, is a professional biographer working on an ancestor, Henry, first Lord Nanther, who was one of Queen Victoria
's doctors and an expert on haemophilia. This eminent Victorian kept a... |
Timeline
1885: Queen Victoria sent a £500 donation to the...
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1885
21 August 1885: The Criminal Law Amendment Act raised the...
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21 August 1885
The Criminal Law Amendment Act raised the age of sexual consent from thirteen to sixteen and criminalized both public and private sexual relations between males. It suppressed brothels and outlawed white slavery.
1886: Royal Holloway College for women was founded...
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1886
Royal Holloway College
for women was founded at Egham in Surrey, twenty miles from London, and opened by Queen Victoria
.
1886: Advertising handbooks were still explicitly...
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1886
Advertising handbooks were still explicitly stressing that the monarch
and all related topics should be rigorously avoided in advertisements.
1886: Advertising handbooks were still explicitly...
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1886
Advertising handbooks were still explicitly stressing that the monarch
and all related topics should be rigorously avoided in advertisements.
1887: The institution which became Queen Mary College...
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1887
9 April 1887: Following the appeal judgment which ordered...
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9 April 1887
Following the appeal judgment which ordered her to cohabit with her husband, Dadaji Bhikaji
, a letter by Rukhmabai
appeared in the LondonTimes.
Late July 1889: The trial began in Liverpool of American...
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Late July 1889
The trial began in Liverpool of American Florence Maybrick
on a charge of poisoning her English husband with arsenic.
February 1890: Queen Victoria appointed twenty-two members,...
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February 1890
Queen Victoria
appointed twenty-two members, including royalty and commoners with experience in district nursing associations, to the Council of the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses
; this group later became known as the Queen's...
By 1 November 1890: William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army,...
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By 1 November 1890
William Booth
, founder of the Salvation Army
, published In Darkest England, and the Way Out, a call for active Christianity and social reform.
26 November 1891: A private command performance of Mascagni's...
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26 November 1891
A private command performance of Mascagni
's Cavalleria Rusticana was presented at Windsor Castle for Queen Victoria
.
10 May 1893: Queen Victoria opened the Imperial Institute...
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10 May 1893
Queen Victoria
opened the Imperial Institute of the Colonies and India
in South Kensington to encourage and represent the arts, manufacturing, and commerce.
1 January 1894: The Manchester Ship Canal began operatio...
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1 January 1894
The Manchester Ship Canal began operation.
10 February 1897: The Victorian Order of Nurses was founded...
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10 February 1897
The Victorian Order of Nurses
was founded to commemorate the Queen
's diamond jubilee.
June 1897: Composer Edward Elgar's first London success...
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June 1897
Composer Edward Elgar
's first London success occurred with his Imperial March, composed for Queen Victoria
's Diamond Jubilee.
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