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.
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Reception | Emily Faithfull | A testimonial dinner was given for EF
in 1871, where she was presented with a silver tea and coffee service. Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial”. Journal of British Studies, Vol. 36 , pp. 70-98. 84 |
Reception | Florence Nightingale | FN
became the first woman to receive the Order of Merit, from King Edward VII
; Queen Victoria
had already awarded her the Royal Red Cross. Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice. xxiii Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Reception | Mary Howitt | In the year this volume was published Queen Victoria
sent one of her ministers, George Henry Byng
, a copy of it. Joanna Baillie
praised it warmly. Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press. 111 Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 140-1 |
Reception | Ellen Johnston | She also received £5 directly from Queen Victoria
. |
Reception | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The column of Our Weekly Gossip argued that selecting a woman would be an honourable testimonial to the individual, a fitting recognition of the remarkable place which the women of England have taken in the... |
Reception | Catherine Gore | This ran to seven performances on first appearance, and to six editions, the last of them during the 1880s. Revivals included a command performance for the future Queen Victoria
on 15 August 1839. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 15-16 |
Reception | Robert Browning | The praise in 1869 was resounding. Robert Buchanan
in the Athenæum hailed it as beyond all parallel the supremest poetical achievement of our time, and the London Quarterly was convinced that Pompilia would rank among... |
Publishing | Noel Streatfeild | Its longer title was Magic and the Magician: E. Nesbit and her Children's Books. NS
then wrote an introduction for Nesbit's Long Ago When I Was Young, when it finally reached posthumous appearance... |
Publishing | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | In 1838 Dacre addressed a sonnet to the new young queen
, to accompany a gift of a copy of her Translations from the Italian. The queen remembered this gift in 1849. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 251 |
Publishing | Agnes Strickland | The volume was published by J. Green
, who contributed a musical arrangement for each poem. Peterman, Michael. Patriotic Songs by Agnes Strickland and Susanna Strickland. No. 4, National Library of Canada. Peterman, Michael. Patriotic Songs by Agnes Strickland and Susanna Strickland. No. 4, National Library of Canada. |
Publishing | Marina Warner | MW
published Queen Victoria
's Sketchbook, an edition of the queen's private journals and watercolour illustrations. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1982 Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research. 194: 284 |
Publishing | Dorothy Brett | The New Yorker in the event paid $410, of which an agent claimed ten percent and Crichton claimed a third. Brett did make another thirty-five dollars when the piece was reprinted in a volume. Her... |
Publishing | Charlotte Mew | CM
's first published poems, two anonymous V. R. I. sonnets, appeared in Temple Bar following Queen Victoria
's death. Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol. 24 , No. 1, pp. 43-7. 45 |
Publishing | Frances Isabella Duberly | During her time in CrimeaFID
kept a diary (whose manuscript does not survive) and sent regular letters home to her sister Selina
(now British Library
Additional Manuscripts 47218). She told Selina that writing to... |
Publishing | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | EWW
was commissioned by the New York magazine the American to go to London and write a poem on the funeral of Queen Victoria
: she wrote The Queen's Last Ride. Dictionary of American Biography. Charles Scribner’s Sons. Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. The Worlds and I. Gay and Hancock. 195 |
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