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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | L. E. L. | LEL
's long poem entitled A Birthday Gift to Princess Victoria was published, officially as A Birthday Tribute, Addressed to Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, on attaining her Eighteenth Year. L. E. L.,. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, p. various pages. 33 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. |
Birth | Rosamond Lehmann | She was the second of four children. Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press. 3 Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang. 39 |
Textual Production | Eliza Lynn Linton | In 1897 ELL
contributed a section on George Eliot
to the collaborative Women Novelists of Queen Victoria
's Reign—which a fellow-contributor, Emma Marshall
, thought detestable. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 305 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 | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Thirty-six years after this publication, MBL
wrote of the way [m]uch is left out that should have been put into official biographies, because of the writer's need to keep a nervous eye cocked on certain... |
Textual Production | Constance Lytton | In the last few months of her life CL
worked at the putting together of an international cookery book. She delighted in mixing classes as well as nations: a cake recipe from Queen Victoria
's... |
Leisure and Society | Sarah Macnaughtan | SM
was formally presented at Buckingham Palace in London as part of her coming out, which was a young girl's rite of passage into high society. She was presented to the Princess of Wales
instead... |
Occupation | Kate Marsden | KM
, seeking support for her work toward curing leprosy, was presented to Queen Victoria
at Marlborough House. Baigent, Elizabeth. “Kate Marsden: 18591931”. Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, edited by Hayden Lorimer and Charles W. J. Withers, Continuum, pp. 63-92. 66 Marsden, Kate. On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers. Record Press. v |
Occupation | Kate Marsden | At Balmoral in Scotland, KM
was again presented to Queen Victoria
, who gave her a gold angel-shaped brooch in recognition of her pursuit of a cure for leprosy. Chapman, Hilary. “The New Zealand Campaign against Kate Marsden, Traveller to Siberia”. New Zealand Slavonic Journal, pp. 123-40. 129 Middleton, Dorothy. Victorian Lady Travellers. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 145 |
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... |
Dedications | Kate Marsden | In her English-language version, KM
seeks to legitimise her project by opening with documentation of her connection to Queen Victoria and other leading public figures. She dedicates it by special permission to the monarch
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Marsh | Anne's brother-in-law from 1822 was the distinguished Sir Henry Holland
(physician to |
Textual Production | Catherine Marsh | CM
, as the Author of English Hearts and English Hands, Brief Memories of the First Earl Cairns, etc., etc. and together with her niece L. E. O'Rorke
, commemorated Queen Victoria
's Golden Jubilee... |
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 |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | The Illustrations were an immediate success and were widely read: the first number sold 5,000 copies. Lord Brougham
lamented that the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledgeshould be driven out of the field... |
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 |
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