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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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Residence | G. B. Stern | Until she was fourteen she grew up in Holland Park, London. She remembered watching Queen Victoria
's funeral procession pass. Then, in face of family financial crisis, this house was disposed of, and... |
| Cultural formation | Anna Steele | Her heritage was English: her mother
's family name, Michell, was said to derive from a village near St Columb Major in Cornwall, now spelled Mitchell. Both sides of Steel's family were presumably white... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Steele | AS
's brother Sir (Henry) Evelyn Wood
was an army officer who was responsible for negotiating the Treaty of Pretoria, signed on 5 April 1881, at the end of the Boer War. Popular with Queen Victoria |
| Reception | Mary Somerville | MS
attended a private audience with Princess Victoria
and the Duchess of Kent
. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 156 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Smythies | The first canto of the poem, in a mix of heroic couplets and quatrains in the same iambic pentameter line, expresses loyal indignation at the cowardly tumult raised against a prince who is defenceless as... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Smythies | Towards the end of this poem about the Crimean War, HS
calls on the women of England. She regards them as formed with gentle hands / To minister to suffering, Smythies, Harriet. Sebastopol. 19 |
| Textual Features | Ethel Smyth | These limitations, she wrote, were a severe hindrance to the pursuit of an artistic career: The whole English attitude towards women in fields of art is ludicrous and uncivilised. There is no sex in art... |
| Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | ES
published another historical biography, Victoria
of England; this became a best-seller. Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis. 47 |
| Dedications | Catherine Sinclair | The book appeared a year after her father's death in late 1835. It was dedicated, with permission, to her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria, who was soon to be Queen
. In the preface... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Sinclair | The poet laureate at this date was Robert Southey, who however was to die early the next year. This work, which features sections of verse as well as prose, focuses on Queen Victoria
's visit... |
| Textual Production | Lydia Howard Sigourney | LHS
commemorated her visit to the state opening of the British parliament
in a poem which, in covering Queen Victoria
's Speech from the Throne, addresses the place of women in public life. Sackville-West, Vita. The Annual. Editor Wellesley, Dorothy, Cobden-Sanderson. 291-4 |
| Travel | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Like other nineteeth-century travellers (the trend is visible in Mary Brunton
in 1812) she visited social and charitable institutions—[s]chools, hospitals, prisons, and asylums—as well as historic houses, castles, and beauty spots. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 183 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Emily Shore | The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria
's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as... |
| Textual Production | Flora Shaw | In 1883, FS
made plans to write a history of England to be titled From Queen to Queen (Elizabeth
to Victoria
) but she never completed it. Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable. 43 Cumpston, Mary. “The Contribution to Ideas of Empire of Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard”. Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 5 , No. 1, pp. 64-75. 66 |
| Textual Production | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | CMS
also wrote a two-volume account of her travels in Europe, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, published in 1841. Notably, her experiences included seeing Queen Victoria
at the opera (she describes... |
Timeline
1 May 1851: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry...
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1 May 1851
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, the first world's fair, was opened by Queen Victoria
in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.
October 1852: Mrs Maria Hayden brought the American practice...
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October 1852
Mrs Maria Hayden
brought the American practice of spiritualism across the ocean to England, where she advertised as a medium.
January 1853: Following Napoleon III's marriage to Eugénie...
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January 1853
Following Napoleon III
's marriage to Eugénie de Montijo
, English female hairstyles followed the fashionable French example.
1854: Queen Victoria sat for the first photographic...
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1854
Queen Victoria
sat for the first photographic portraits of the royal family, taken by Roger Fenton
.
10 June 1854: Queen Victoria reopened the Crystal Palace...
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10 June 1854
Queen Victoria
reopened the Crystal Palace on its new site in Sydenham just south of London.
1855: When Napoleon III and his wife, the Empress...
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1855
When Napoleon III
and his wife, the Empress Eugénie
, visited Queen Victoria
, Eugénie brought the first crinoline to England with her.
29 January 1856: Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross...
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29 January 1856
Queen Victoria
instituted the Victoria Cross for acts of conspicuous valour.
May 1856: Ellen Terry made her theatrical debut at...
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May 1856
Ellen Terry
made her theatrical debut at the Princess's Theatre
, watched by an audience which included Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert
.
1857: The Department of Practical Art constructed...
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1857
The Department of Practical Art
constructed a facility on eighty-seven acres of land in South Kensington.
1858: Queen Victoria chose Ottawa to become the...
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1858
Queen Victoria
chose Ottawa to become the capital of Canada.
9 April 1858: Queen Victoria signed the royal charter giving...
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9 April 1858
Queen Victoria
signed the royal charter giving London University
(then comprised of two schools, University College
and King's College
) the revolutionary power of offering courses and degrees externally.
2 August 1858: Government and military control of India...
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2 August 1858
Government and military control of India was transferred by the Government of India Act from the East India Company
to the British Crown
after the successful suppression of the Indian Mutiny by the British army.
5 August 1858: The first effective transatlantic telegraph...
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5 August 1858
The first effective transatlantic telegraph cable was laid between Ireland and Newfoundland. During the celebrations, Queen Victoria
and President James Buchanan
exchanged messages over the cable.
4 May 1874: Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler, exhibited...
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4 May 1874
Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler
, exhibited her painting Roll Call at the Royal Academy
; it was bought by Queen Victoria
.
October 1860: Dion Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn; or, The...
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October 1860
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