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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The title piece is a lyrical drama depicting, largely in the form of a conversation between two angels, the crucifixion of Christ. Among the accompanying pieces were several on literary personages or topics: To Mary Russell Mitford
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
Yet...
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...
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The poem is innovative in its blend of novelistic discourse and subject-matter—its depiction of the urban landscape and contemporary social issues including wife-beating and prostitution were indebted to both the English and French novel—with the...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
DB 's father, Sir Richard Strachey , was born on 24 July 1817 at Sutton Court at Stowey in Somerset. He joined the Bombay Engineers at the age of nineteen and pursued an immensely...
Leisure and Society Augusta Ada Byron
Her marriage and her title brought AAB a whirl of social engagements: balls, concerts (including Bellini 's Norma), and meeting Queen Victoria . The domestic and social duties of managing three houses as a...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ada Cambridge
The first section of Echoes, which comprises nearly ninety percent of the book, includes several poems that describe personal and historical events of importance to the author with fervently religious language. Five of these...
Leisure and Society Lady Colin Campbell
On 5 May 1875 Gertrude Blood, later LCC , was presented in the Queen 's Drawing Room at court: her formal entry into society.
Jordan, Anne. Love Well the Hour: The Life of Lady Colin Campbell (1857-1911). Troubador Publishing Ltd.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosa Nouchette Carey
In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some...
Friends, Associates Georgiana Chatterton
While spending two summers with her mother at Tunbridge Wells, the young Georgiana Iremonger met with the Duchess of Kent and her daughter (the future Queen Victoria ) almost every day, and spent time...
Literary responses Mary Cholmondeley
Red Pottage was highly controversial when it was published, and its negative depiction of the clergy was denounced from pulpits (though Queen Victoria was rumoured to have read and enjoyed it). One church periodical went...
Literary responses Caroline Clive
The volume firmly established CC 's reputation as a gifted and talented writer. She was delighted when John Gibson Lockhart wrote (under the impression that he was addressing a man) that he was deeply impressed...
Leisure and Society Constance, Countess Markievicz
Constance Gore-Booth (later Markievicz) was presented at court to Queen Victoria , marking her coming out in London and Dublin high society.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora.
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3-4 November 1839: Welsh Chartists marched on Newport in Mo...

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3-4 November 1839

Welsh Chartists marched on Newport in Monmouthshire.

1 February 1840: Death sentences on Welsh Chartist leaders...

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1 February 1840

Death sentences on Welsh Chartist leaders were commuted to transportation for life.

Early 1840: At the time of Queen Victoria's marriage...

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Early 1840

At the time of Queen Victoria 's marriage to Prince Albert , the Devon industry of hand-crafted lace-making had so far declined that it was difficult to obtain enough for her wedding dress.

1 May 1840: The first adhesive postage stamps went on...

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1 May 1840

The first adhesive postage stamps went on sale in Great Britain in penny and twopenny denominations which bore the profile of Queen Victoria .

21 November 1840: Prince Albert's attendance at Queen Victoria's...

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21 November 1840

Prince Albert 's attendance at Queen Victoria 's labour, in London, increased the popularity of fathers attending births.

13 June 1842: Queen Victoria first travelled by train,...

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13 June 1842

Queen Victoria first travelled by train, from Slough to Paddington.

12 June 1843: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert became part...

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12 June 1843

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert became part of the theatre-going public when they visited the Drury Lane Theatre in state.

1844: The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers's...

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1844

The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers 's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation influenced the evolutionary thinking of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace .

1847: Professor James Young Simpson first used...

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1847

Professor James Young Simpson first used chloroform to aid a woman in childbirth in London.

4 May 1847: Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, gave...

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4 May 1847

Jenny Lind , the Swedish Nightingale, gave her first London performance at Her Majesty's Theatre .

1 May 1848: Queen's College for Women (a secondary, not...

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1 May 1848

Queen's College for Women (a secondary, not a post-secondary institution) was founded in London to educate prospective governesses and improve girls' education generally.

1849: Sir David Brewster invented the stereosc...

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1849

Sir David Brewster invented the stereoscope.

1850: From this date, anaesthetic was regularly...

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1850

From this date, anaesthetic was regularly used in the practice of gynaecology, gaining wide popularity after 1870.

1 June 1850: Alfred Tennyson anonymously published his...

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1 June 1850

Alfred Tennyson anonymously published his poetic sequence In Memoriam.

1851: Owens College opened in Manchester; in 1871...

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1851

Owens College opened in Manchester; in 1871 it began to admit women.

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