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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron 's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
75-6
This farcical presentation of Victorian life...
Textual Features Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
The unfortunate Lady Flora was headline news. A lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria 's mother, she had been suspected of illicit pregnancy. It turned out (after medical examination and humiliating publicity) that she had a disease...
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
Textual Features Dorothy Whipple
DW begins the book endearingly with her repeated commands to her self to go back in time, with the unwillingness of her self to leave the present, and the way it finally runs far away...
Textual Features Dorothy Wellesley
DW 's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington , doyenne of the albums...
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
Textual Features Marina Warner
The book includes text and images gathered from over fifty albums which Queen Victoria kept from her girlhood (beginning 13 July 1832) until her death (22 July 1901). They present a multi-faceted picture of the...
Textual Features Sylvia Townsend Warner
The novel is a retelling of the story of Cupid and Psyche (or Love and the Soul) by Apuleius , with names and characteristics transposed to Victorian England. The heroine is a young orphan who...
Literary responses Lucy Walford
Another response had a more immediate impact on LW : that of the monarch. Through correspondence with the Duchess of Roxburghe,
The duchess may be the seventy-year-old Susanna Stephenia , wife of the 6th Duke...
Textual Features Lucy Walford
The volume is the source of most biographical information about Walford. It runs from her early life and ends on a high note in her literary career: her appearance in front of Queen Victoria ...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth von Arnim
EA had one elder sister and four elder brothers: Ralph (b. 1857), Charlotte (b. 1858), Sydney (b. 1861), Walter (b. 1862), and Harry (b. 1864). As an adult she was close to Charlotte and Sydney...
Textual Production Linda Villari
LV 's final major work, the historical novel Oswald von Wolkenstein: A Memoir of the Last Minnesinger of Tirol, was published by J. M. Dent and Company . LV wrote it at Florence and...
Dedications Sophie Veitch
She dedicated the book to Queen Victoria . It was intended for purposes of presentation and display, with gilt-edged leaves, and gilt embossing on the front cover and spine. The forty illustrative plates mainly depict...
Wealth and Poverty Harriet Tytler
HT 's husband purchased at auction the jewelled cap or crown of the last Mughal Emperor, and two of his thrones. Once back in England, he sold these to the queen for £500. (Though the...
Occupation Harriet Tytler
During the next six months she and her husband took nearly 500 photographs of locations associated with the Indian Mutiny. Two years later the Calotype photographs and paintings were taken to England and displayed...

Timeline

1766 or 1767: Joseph Priestley first isolated nitrous oxide...

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1766 or 1767

Joseph Priestley first isolated nitrous oxide or nitrous air.

1799: The Evangelical movement founded the Religious...

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1799

The Evangelical movement founded the Religious Tract Society , with the object of publishing texts for the salvation of sinners.

1806: James S. Carter, a Tourist Outfitter, opened...

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1806

James S. Carter , a Tourist Outfitter, opened a shop at 369 Oxford Street, London; among his wares was an Alpine boot for walking outdoors, made for men and women.

31 March 1814: The victorious allied armies entered Paris...

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31 March 1814

The victorious allied armies entered Paris to reclaim France for monarchical government.

: Evangelical William Wilberforce stayed in...

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Winter1814-15

Evangelical William Wilberforce stayed in Brighton during the winter season in order to have access to the Prince Regent and attempt a conversion within the monarchy.

1819: Surgeon William Lawrence's publication of...

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1819

Surgeon William Lawrence 's publication of his lectures on the Natural History of Man caused a scandal because conservatives believed it reduced humans to the level of animals.

16 June 1824: The first meeting of the Society for the...

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16 June 1824

The first meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (later the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or RSPCA) took place in London.

3 August 1832: In the wake of the first Reform Bill, Henry...

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3 August 1832

In the wake of the first Reform Bill, Henry Hunt presented Parliament with a petition for female enfranchisement on behalf of Miss Mary Smith of Stanmore, Yorkshire.

June 1833: The popularity of the charity bazaar as an...

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June 1833

The popularity of the charity bazaar as an institution was assured when the future Queen operated a stall at the Grand Fancy Fair and Bazaar of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress .

1836: A giant water lily, native to the Amazon...

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1836

A giant water lily, native to the Amazon and South America, was discovered in British Guiana ; the next year it was named Victoria Regia (later Victoria Amazonica) in honour of Queen Victoria .

1837: Black musician Frank Johnson and his Philadelphia...

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1837

Black musician Frank Johnson and his Philadelphia band were the first American band to tour Britain.

1838: Sir Titus Salt invented alpaca, a fabric...

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1838

Sir Titus Salt invented alpaca, a fabric similar to silk, but much cheaper.

1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...

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1838

Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History, published this year, set out to prove Queen Victoria 's Scottish ancestry.

29 June 1838: The Sun newspaper was printed in gold to...

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29 June 1838

The Sun newspaper was printed in gold to celebrate Queen Victoria 's coronation.

5 July 1839: Lady Flora Hastings, a lady-in-waiting to...

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5 July 1839

Lady Flora Hastings , a lady-in-waiting to the mother of the young and inexperienced Queen Victoria , died, probably of liver cancer, at Buckingham Palace after being publicly suspected of illicit pregnancy.

Texts

Victoria, Queen, and Patricia Edwina Victoria Knatchbull, second Countess Mountbatten. Advice to a Grand-Daughter: Letters from Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesse. Editor Hough, Richard, Heinemann, 1975.
Victoria, Queen. Beloved and Darling Child: Last Letters Between Queen Victoria and her Eldest Daughter 1886-1901. Editor Ramm, Agatha, Alan Sutton, 1990.
Victoria, Queen. Beloved Mama: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princess 1878-1885. Editor Fulford, Roger, Evans, 1981.
Victoria, Queen. Darling Child: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1871-1878. Editor Fulford, Roger, Evans, 1981.
Victoria, Queen, and Alfred Tennyson. Dear and Honoured Lady: The Correspondence Between Queen Victoria and Alfred Tennyson. Editors Dyson, Hope and Charles Tennyson, Macmillan, 1969.
Victoria, Queen. Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal 1858-1861. Editor Fulford, Roger, Evans Brothers, 1964.
Victoria, Queen. Dearest Mama: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1861-1864. Editor Fulford, Roger, Evans Brothers, 1968.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, edited by Arthur Helps, Harper and Brothers, 1868.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal 1858-1861, edited by Roger Fulford, Evans Brothers, 1964, p. various pages.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Dearest Mama: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1861-1864, edited by Roger Fulford, Evans Brothers, 1968, p. various pages.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Your Dear Letter: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1865-1871, edited by Roger Fulford, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971, p. various pages.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Beloved Mama: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princess 1878-1885, edited by Roger Fulford, Evans Brothers, 1981, p. various pages.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Queen Victoria in her Letters and Journals, edited by Christopher Hibbert, Penguin, 1985, p. various pages.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Beloved and Darling Child: Last Letters Between Queen Victoria and her Eldest Daughter 1886-1901, edited by Agatha Ramm, Alan Sutton, 1990.
Victoria, Queen, and Raymond Mortimer. Leaves from a Journal. Privately printed, 1888.
Victoria, Queen. Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. Editor Helps, Arthur, Harper and Brothers, 1868.
Victoria, Queen. Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. Editor Helps, Arthur, Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Victoria, Queen. More Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. Editor Helps, Arthur, Smith, Elder, 1884.
Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin, 1985.
Warner, Marina, and Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria’s Sketchbook. Macmillan, 1979.
Victoria, Queen. The Girlhood of Queen Victoria. Editor Esher, Lord, Murray, 1912.
Victoria, Queen. Your Dear Letter: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1865-1871. Editor Fulford, Roger, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971.