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 Sarah Tytler
Of ST 's other biographies, The Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen came out in two volumes in 1883 and 1885 (having also been published in parts), and was quickly reprinted at Toronto...
Textual Production Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
An accident at Hartley Colliery in Northumberland provoked HET to write a poem about it; this year she also wrote of Queen Victoria 's mourning for Prince Albert .
Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Rhymes and Legends. Richard Bentley and Son.
ix
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
214
Literary responses Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
The Queen personally requested a copy of the poem about the mining tragedy.
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
214
Residence Flora Thompson
After Queen Victoria 's Diamond Jubilee, FT made what was for her a radical move: she left north Oxfordshire, where her life so far had been entirely centred, to work at Grayshott in Hampshire.
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale.
48, 50
Textual Production Angela Thirkell
In Coronation SummerAT produced a carefully-researched historical novel set in London in 1838, the year of Queen Victoria 's coronation.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
114, 110-11
Occupation Alfred Tennyson
Having twice refused a title, AT accepted, at the urging of Queen Victoria , a baronetcy and seat in the House of Lords , becoming the first English writer to be raised to the peerage.
Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan.
288
Friends, Associates Alfred Tennyson
A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald , Coventry Patmore , Edward Lear , William Ewart Gladstone
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...
Residence Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Her new house was one of the first completed on a new estate by builder-entrepreneur Thomas Cubitt . In January 1838, when she and her husband moved in, the area was still green, almost rural...
Textual Production Anna Swanwick
In May 1898 and in 1899 AS addressed large audiences at the Jubilee ceremonies at both Queen's and Bedford College . On the former occasion she was introduced to Queen Victoria .
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin.
223
Friends, Associates Annie S. Swan
ASS drops the names of at least two social classes in the earlier parts of her autobiography. The Dowager Duchess of Atholl (a Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria ) brought her to the attention...
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.
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
Soon after the new queen's wedding, AS published Queen Victoria from Her Birth to Her Bridal, an early example of the royal-watching industry.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
74
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...
Textual Features Harriet Beecher Stowe
She was more controversial in her defence of the Improvements in the Scottish Highlands. Much of HBS 's visit to Britain had been facilitated by the Duchess of Sutherland (Mistress of the Robes to...

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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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