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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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
AS continued her professional relationship with Green , publishing another patriotic song, The Merry Queen of England, sometime after 1832.
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...
Author summary Adelaide Procter
AP 's poetry, which appeared almost exclusively in Household Words and All the Year Round, was among the most popular of the Victorian era. An active mid-Victorian feminist, she was a member of the...
Author summary Kate Marsden
A nurse and explorer, KM published a small but widely-circulated body of travel writing that at once documented her search for treatments for leprosy and served as tools for her to raise funds and awareness...
politics Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Her sympathies reached far beyond Ireland. In Geneva in 1819 she delighted in her first breath of the free air of a Republic, and she longed (though without much hope for the outcome) to contribute...
politics Maud Gonne
After coming into her inheritance, MG put a great deal of effort into campaigning in England and beyond for the cause of Irish Home Rule. She invested great energy in political activism throughout her life...
politics Elizabeth Grant
Her journal evinces a keen interest not only in matters that concerned her directly (such as the impact of the Irish famine) but also in broader domestic and international politics (such as Chartism and the...
Other Life Event Harriet Martineau
She attended the coronation of Queen Victoria on 28 June 1838, standing on a railing in order to see more clearly.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago.
2: 125
Later, she attended the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Other Life Event Florence Nightingale
Queen Victoria wrote to her during the war, and after the peace spoke highly of her achievements abroad. The monarch sent her a personal letter and an engraved, enameled, and jeweled brooch designed by the...
Occupation Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton
His first task was to organize the celebrations on New Year's Day 1877 for Queen Victoria 's proclamation as Empress of India. The rest of his time as Viceroy was quite controversial. His policy towards...

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