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.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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. |
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 | 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. |
Literary responses | Fanny Aikin Kortright | |
Residence | Fanny Kingsley | |
Travel | Fanny Kemble | FK
visited her family in London, witnessing the opening of Queen Victoria
's first parliament in late December. She left England, however, before the coronation the following June, pregnant for a second time. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 123, 125-7 |
Literary responses | Fanny Kemble | The book quickly became a best-seller, but elicited negative reviews.Edgar Allan Poe
spoke against the young female narrator for exhibiting too much self-confidence, but conceded that the writing had vivacity of style. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 84 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Kavan | Her mother, Helen (Bright) Woods
, was the illegitimate grand-daughter of Dr Richard Bright
, physician to Queen Victoria
and discoverer of Bright's disease. She was a seventeen-year old beauty with no fortune when she... |
Reception | Ellen Johnston | She also received £5 directly from Queen Victoria
. |
Publishing | Ellen Johnston | The forty-eight patrons and subscribers thanked in the second edition included Queen Victoria
, Benjamin Disraeli
, Robert Napier
, and Lord Raglan
, as well as other members of the nobility and the army... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Her blank verse celebrates female historical figures ranging from Joan of Arc
to Queen Victoria
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 302-3 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Naomi Jacob | The Shakespeare
allusion is curious and suggestive. Antonio is replying to Shylock's famous speech claiming humanity for Jews; he justifies his own racial or religious hostility, and suggests that usury can only be pracised on... |
Textual Production | Lucille Iremonger | LI
published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia
, daughter of George III
(who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria
's daughters in 1982. In 1981... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kathleen E. Innes | The book contains additional chapters on local charities, the festivities on Queen Victoria
's Diamond Jubilee, the Great Fire, social clubs founded since 1900, and the erection of the Village Centre built by voluntary labour. |
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