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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 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... |
| Residence | Harriett Mozley | |
| Residence | G. B. Stern | Until she was fourteen she grew up in Holland Park, London. She remembered watching Queen Victoria
's funeral procession pass. Then, in face of family financial crisis, this house was disposed of, and... |
| Residence | Fanny Kingsley | |
| Residence | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Her new house was one of the first completed on a new estate by builder-entrepreneur Thomas Cubitt
. In January 1838, when she and her husband moved in, the area was still green, almost rural... |
| Residence | Flora Thompson | After Queen Victoria
's Diamond Jubilee, FT
made what was for her a radical move: she left north Oxfordshire, where her life so far had been entirely centred, to work at Grayshott in Hampshire. Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale. 48, 50 |
| Reception | Ellen Johnston | She also received £5 directly from Queen Victoria
. |
Timeline
23 June 1897: A state performance was held at Covent Garden's...
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23 June 1897
A state performance was held at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House
in honour of Queen Victoria
's Diamond Jubilee. The programme included Tannhäuser, Romeo et Juliette and Les Huguenots.
1899: A collection of poetry by Maxwell Gray, The...
Women writers item
1899
A collection of poetry by Maxwell Gray
, The Forest Chapel, and Other Poems, was dedicated to Queen Victoria
.
1 July 1900: Nationalists held the Patriotic Children's...
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1 July 1900
Nationalists held the Patriotic Children's Treat at Clonturk Park, Dublin, in retaliation for children's events held during the visit of Queen Victoria
to Ireland in April of that year.
22 January 1901: Edward VII assumed the throne on the death...
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22 January 1901
Edward VII
assumed the throne on the death of his mother, Queen Victoria
.
1902: Lucy Walford published her novel Charlot...
Women writers item
1902
Lucy Walford
published her novelCharlotte.
1917: John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird...
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1917
John Murray
(publishers of Isabella Bird
and later Freya Stark
) took over Smith, Elder
(publishers of Charlotte Brontë
, Charlotte Chanter
, and Queen Victoria
).
1921: The Institute of Marine Engineers admitted...
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1921
The Institute of Marine Engineers
admitted its first female member, Victoria Drummond
, a god-daughter of Queen Victoria
, who owed her start as an apprentice engineer to the First World War.
26 September 1934: The Queen Mary left Southampton on her maiden...
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26 September 1934
The Queen Mary left Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York.
December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...
Women writers item
December 1965
Actress Peggy Ashcroft
toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University
.
6 May 2009: The antiquarian book collection of the late...
Women writers item
6 May 2009
The antiquarian book collection of the late Paula Fentress Peyraud
(the largest in private hands), auctioned in New York, fetched more than $1.5 million US. Books by women between 1760 and 1830 predominated.
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