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
Material Conditions of Writing Jane Porter
JP , after sitting half an hour in the rain in Pall Mall waiting to see Queen Victoria 's wedding procession pass, marked the occasion with a poem.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
80
Dedications Adelaide Procter
AP edited The Victoria Regia: A Volume of Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose, with a preface by Emily Faithfull , published by Faithfull at the Victoria Press , set by women compositors, and...
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...
Textual Production Adelaide Procter
Her mother encouraged her love of poetry, before AP could write, by making for her daughter a little album into which she copied her favourite passages. Dickens commented: It looks as if she had carried...
Intertextuality and Influence Pandita Ramabai
Rachel L. Bodley claims that this was read by (and influenced the opinions of) Queen Victoria .
Ramabai, Pandita. Pandita Ramabai’s American Encounter. Kosambi, MeeraEditor & translator , Indiana University Press.
242n12
Bodley, Rachel L., and Pandita Ramabai. “Introduction”. The High-Caste Hindu Woman, Jas B. Rogers, p. i - xxiv.
xvi, xviii
Textual Features Ruth Rendell
Its protagonist, Martin, Lord Nanther, is a professional biographer working on an ancestor, Henry, first Lord Nanther, who was one of Queen Victoria 's doctors and an expert on haemophilia. This eminent Victorian kept a...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Rigby
The same year they saw Queen Victoria 's entourage in Paris on a state visit.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
105
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Rigby
Queen Victoria soon afterwards relayed her deepest sympathy.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
112
Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press.
2: 203-4
ER , however, remained grief-stricken. It is of no use your hoping to find me in good spirits—I shall never be that again, she...
Literary responses Elizabeth Rigby
The tribute was much appreciated by the Queen .
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
111
John Murray passed on to ER letters in praise of her memorial publication.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press.
2: 165
Literary responses Elizabeth Rigby
Her publisher arranged for Queen Victoria to have a copy and the monarch's reaction was relayed to Rigby: The Queen sat down and read it through without stopping.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press.
2: 208
ER later allowed Victoria the...
Literary responses Margaret Roberts
Mary J. Y. Harris , biographer of Frances Mary Peard , calls this MR 's best-known novel, and says it was a favourite with Queen Victoria .
Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith.
16, 63
Intertextuality and Influence Amanda McKittrick Ros
Lewis 's cautious review drew an ill-tempered and lengthy response generated by AMKR 's belief that he had also insulted Queen Victoria (and to a lesser degree Disraeli ). She writes in the vitriolic fashion...
Family and Intimate relationships Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
She gave birth to her second child, Edward Robert Bulwer , on 8 November 1831.
Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable.
161
He became a diplomat and, as Viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880, a stage-manager of imperial pomp when...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
The pamphlet takes the form of a letter to an unnamed man. Along with the particular example of her husband, it attacks the government of England: but how could this country be anything but the...
Travel Martin Ross
MR recorded her watching of Queen Victoria 's jubilee procession: she was most struck by the Indian princes, sparkling fit to blind you. The finest of the whole show,
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
44
however, was the queen herself.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
43-4

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